FHI's Magazine Profiling AIDS Prevention Projects: AIDScaptions

AIDScaptions was published three times a year until June 1997.

AIDScaptions: Building on Success: The Next Generation of HIV/AIDS Programs
Vol. IV, No. 1, June 1997

Profiles of HIV/AIDS projects from Kigali to Kingston demonstrate that prevention efforts can influence sexual behavior, yielding important lessons for the next generation of HIV/AIDS programs. This issue includes articles on successful condom social marketing projects in the war-torn countries of Rwanda and Haiti, an award-winning mass media campaign for young people in the Dominican Republic, and a powerful grassroots campaign against HIV/AIDS based in Kenya's churches and the communities they serve.

AIDScaptions: HIV/AIDS Prevention: Perspectives from the Field
Vol. III, No. 3, November 1996

In this issue people on the front lines of the struggle against the HIV/AIDS epidemic -- peer educators, program managers, communication specialists, counselors, outreach workers and people living with HIV/AIDS -- share their insights, methods, experiences, frustrations and hopes.

AIDScaptions: New Paths in HIV/AIDS Prevention
Vol. III, No. 2, July 1996

This issue examines innovative responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, including prevention efforts in a Rwandan refugee camp, cross-border collaboration between prevention projects in India and Nepal, and the first randomized study on the impact of HIV counseling and testing. Articles about behavior change communication, sexually transmitted disease control and condom social marketing examine the contribution of these strategies to slowing the spread of HIV/AIDS.

AIDScaptions: STD Prevention: New Challenges, New Approaches
Vol. III, No. 1, May 1996

This issue focuses on the need to reduce the estimated 333 million sexually transmitted infections that occur each year. Included are stories on syndromic management, targeted intervention research, how treating STDs curbs transmission of HIV, controlling STD transmission through partner notification, and the Thai model for STD reduction, among others.

AIDScaptions:Women and AIDS: Empowerment and Prevention
Vol. II, No. 3, November 1995

This issue examines HIV prevention methods women can control, the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV, the politics of HIV prevention for Southeast Asian women, integrating HIV prevention and family planning services in Jamaica, and how escaping from gender stereotypes helps young people in Uganda practice safer sex.