Editorial Reducing HIV/AIDS risk, impact and vulnerability

Around the world, the initial assumption upon which many early community-based human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) prevention programmes were based was that self-awareness of risk behaviours and knowledge about modes of prevention would suffice to stop the spread of the virus. By the mid-1980s, recognition of the risk behaviours associated with infection had begun to shape the response to the expand-ing epidemic. This approach met with some success among politically organized communities such as white gay men in Australia, North America, and Wester