Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

HIV history, illness, transmission, and treatment / Ryan M. Kull -- Underlying principles of helping in the HIV field / Hugo Kamya -- Cultu ral competence and HIV / Manoj Paradasani, Claudia Lucia Moreno, & Nich olas Robertson Forge -- The human rights framework applied to HIV servi ces and policy / Cynthia Cannon Poindexter -- HIV-related case manageme nt / Douglas M. Brooks -- HIV-related crisis intervention and counselin g / Michael P. Melendez -- HIV social work roles, tasks, and challenges in health care settings / Brian Giddens -- HIV-related group work and family support / Patricia A. Stewart & Valerie Dixson-Anderson -- Admin istration of HIV services : program development, management, and fund d evelopment / Dana B. Marlowe -- HIV-related community organizing and gr assroots advocacy / Larry M. Gant -- HIV-related political and legislat ive intervention / Gary Bailey -- HIV prevention innovations and challe nges / Peter A. Newman -- Women and HIV in the U.S. : from invisible to self-determined / Sally Mason -- HIV prevention and services for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men : now is still the time / David J. Brennan & Winston Husbands -- The impact of HIV on children a nd adolescents / Lori Wiener & Susan Taylor-Brown -- HIV-infected and H IV-affected midlife and older persons / Charles A. Emlet -- HIV and bla ck and African American communities in the twenty-first century / Darre ll P. Wheeler ... [et al.] -- Latinos and HIV : a framework to develop evidence-based strategies / Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Alida Bouris, & Susa n M. Gallego -- HIV-affected caregivers / Helen Land -- Afterword : loo king back, looking forward in HIV social work / Cynthia Cannon Poindext er & Nathan L. Linsk.