The Second Plague of Europe : AIDS Prevention and Sexual Transmission among Men in Western Europe

This work details the progress of AIDS prevention initiatives in Western Europe and addresses important issues concerning the effectiveness of various strategies to promote safer sexual practices for men engaged in sexual activity with other men.

The book describes how to alert the most exposed groups rapidly, bring about behaviour changes without causing panic, and how to formulate messages clearly addressed to fringe groups without stigmatising them.

Professionals will find insights into AIDS prevention programmes with comparisons of prevention policies in different European countries; a discussion of how to reach adolescents or men who don't identify with the gay lifestyle; and methodologies which work best in the study of lifestyle, sexuality and protective behaviour among gay men. "The Second Plague of Europe" inspires successful strategies for AIDS prevention by documenting examples of successes and failures of prevention in Western Europe.