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- Title: Mythic Prostitutes, AIDS and Criminal Law.
- Author : Ethnologies
- Release Date : January 01, 2001
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 227 KB
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Introduction Governmental institutions in the United States have pursued AIDS prevention modeled on two distinct paradigms. The dominant paradigm, drawing from an intersection of public health and civil rights law, emphasizes universal education, universal precaution, and the treatment and protection of hiv-positive individuals. The paradigm assumes that, given culturally-appropriate educational materials, all persons are equally educable and equally willing and able to act on health knowledge in order to protect themselves. Unlike empirical data that forms the basis of educational materials regarding modes of viral transmission, such assumptions rest on ideals of human behavior, ideals which exist in uneasy relation to the well-documented gap between AIDS-related knowledge and behavior.