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The epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has forced us to acknowledge the limitations of science and medicine in controlling the spread of disease. In the foreword to this book, Jonathan Mann reminds us of the essential link between health and behavior. Since the emergence of the HIV epidemic, the expectations that a preventive vaccine would be developed quickly and that miracle treatments would prolong life in those already infected have diverted attention from the need to design, implement, and evaluate public health interventions with the goal of stopping the transmission of HIV.
The editors, Ralph J. DiClemente and John
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