Bowser (sociology and social services, California State University) collects funders' perspectives on collaborative AIDS research in this guide to cooperative efforts between researchers and community-based organizations. Academics in community medicine and directors of community organizations, all based in California, discuss issues related to the

Learn how to create professional collaboration between HIV/AIDS researchers and community organizations for the benefit of all This book is designed to help frontline prevention organizations answer two questions that are of utmost importance. First, how effective are their services; and second, can their work be improved? The absence of rigorous evaluation is a barrier to stable funding for community organizations, and the strategies in Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations can help overcome that barrier. The book is a guide to successful cooperative efforts between researchers...