The new public health and STD/HIV prevention : personal, public, and health systems approaches

Despite effective approaches to prevention, STD and HIV infection rates remain fairly constant. Targeting, implementation, and monitoring of interventions have posed widespread problems, and the recent spate of cuts to prevention budgets has made these roadblocks even more challenging. It is clear that working in sexual health requires both a deeper understanding of STI/HIV epidemiology and an ongoing quest for up-to-date, realistic prevention strategies. The New Public Health and STD/HIV Prevention offers readers leading-edge access to both. Focusing on social determinants of sexual health, at-risk populations, critical factors in approaches to prevention, and reviews of new research, this authoritative volume explores areas as varied as HPV prevention, technology-based interventions, migration as a factor in disease transmission, and competencies key to effective leadership in the field. Dispatches from the frontlines of theory, research, and practice in the U.S. and abroad include: Personal risk, public impact: balancing individual rights and STD/HIV prevention. Distribution of prevention resources and its impact on sexual health. Prevention measures in diverse populations of women. Toward a better approach to preventive interventions with men who have sex with men. Adolescent sexual health and STIs. Reducing disparities in sexual health: lessons from the campaign to eliminate infectious syphilis. Public health professionals of all backgrounds interested in or working in improving sexual health will find The New Public Health and STD/HIV Prevention an indispensable guide to conceptualizing the problems and clarifying possible solutions. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Social Determinants of Sexual Networks, Partnership Formation, and Sexually Transmitted Infections....Pages 13-31 Epidemiology of STI and HIV: An Overview of Concentration and Geographical and Temporal Dispersion....Pages 33-63 Migration and the Transmission of STIs....Pages 65-75 Sexual Networks and Sexually Transmitted Infections; “The Strength of Weak (Long Distance) Ties”....Pages 77-109 Personal Risk and Public Impact: Balancing Individual Rights with STD and HIV Prevention....Pages 111-125 Front Matter....Pages 127-127 Distribution of Prevention Resources and Impact on Sexual Health in the USA....Pages 129-149 Scaling Up, Coverage, and Targeting....Pages 151-164 Electronic Media and STI Prevention....Pages 165-175 Twenty-First Century Leadership for Public Health and HIV/STI Prevention....Pages 177-194 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Enhancing Women’s Sexual Health: Prevention Measures in Diverse Populations of Women....Pages 197-219 Prevention of HIV and Other Blood-Borne and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in People Who Inject Drugs: Current Status and Future Prospects....Pages 221-249 Health, Sexual Health, and Syndemics: Toward a Better Approach to STI and HIV Preventive Interventions for Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in the United States....Pages 251-272 Social Determinants of Sexual Health in the USA Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities....Pages 273-291 Adolescent Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Conceptual and Empirical Demonstration....Pages 293-305 Front Matter....Pages 307-307 Preventing HIV/AIDS in the United States, 1981–2009: History in the Making....Pages 309-337 A National Strategic Approach to Improving the Health of Gay and Bisexual Men: Experience in Australia....Pages 339-360 Reducing Disparities in Sexual Health: Lessons Learned from the Campaign to Eliminate Infectious Syphilis from the United States....Pages 361-382 Human Papillomavirus Vaccine and Prevention of Human Papillomavirus-Associated Disease in the USA....Pages 383-400 Chlamydia Control: A Comparative Review from the USA and UK....Pages 401-429 Back Matter....Pages 431-439 This book advances the argument that the public health discourse in general and the STI/HIV prevention discourse in particular must evolve and expand to include strategic approaches to epidemiology and prevention.