Community-Level Approaches to Preventing HIV: Guest Editors' Introduction

In this paper we introduce the contributions included in the special section on community-level efforts to prevent HIV. Authors of several recent review papers have suggested that individual-level approaches to prevent the spread of HIV produce short-term changes in behavior among intervention participants. However, many HIV prevention researchers believe that changing individuals' behavior alone is insufficient to stem the tide of the epidemic. Emergent approaches to HIV prevention seek to generate change at the community-level. The articles in the special section articulate current themes in community-level approaches to preventing HIV.     

Editors' introduction

Editors' introduction