Over the past two decades, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS has challenged the public health community to fundamentally rethink the framework for preventing infectious diseases. While much progress has been made on the biomedical front in treatments for HIV infection, prevention still relies on behaviour change. This book documents and explains the remarkable breakthroughs in behavioural research design that have emerged to confront this new challenge: the study of partnership networks.

• Editor's Introduction


• Overview of Network Survey Designs


• Local Network Designs


• 1: Edward O. Laumann, Jenna Mahay, Anthony Paik, Yoosik Youm University of Chicago: Network data collection and its relevance for the analysis of STDs: The National Health and Social Life Survey, and Chicago Health and Social Life Survey


• 2: Martina Morris, Maria J. Wawer, Chai Podhisita, Tony Pramualratana, Nelson Sewankambo, David Serwadda: The Thailand and Ugandan Sexual Network Studies


• 3: Caraël M, Glynn JR, Lagarde E, Morison L for the Study Group on Heterogeneity of HIV in African Cities: Sexual networks and HIV in four African populations: the use of a standardised behavioural survey with biological markers


• Partial Network Designs


• 4: John J Potterat, Donald E Woodhouse, Stephen Q Muth, Richard B Rothenberg, William W Darrow, Alden S Klovdahl, John B Muth: Network dynamism: history and lessons of the Colorado Springs study


• 5: Richard Rothenberg, David Long, Claire Sterk, Al Pach, Robert Trotter, Julie Baldwin, Carol Maxwell: The Urban and Rural Networks Project (Atlanta and Flagstaff)


• 6: Sevgi O. Aral, Ph.D., Jim Hughes, Ph.D., Pamina Gorbach, Dr.P.H., Bradley Stoner, M.D., Ph.D., Lisa Manhart, M.P.H., Geoff Garnett, Ph.D., Betsy Foxman, Ph.D., Matthew Golden, M.D., M.P.H., King K. Holmes, M.D., Ph.D.: The Seattle Sexual Mixing, Sexual Networks, and Sexual Partnership Types Studies


• Complete Network Designs


• 7: Ronald R. Rindfuss, Aree Jampaklay, Barbara Entwisle, Yothin Sawangdee, Katherine Faust, Pramote Prasartkul: The Collection and Analysis of Social Network Data in Nang Rong, Thailand


• 8: Peter S. Bearman, James Moody, Katherine Stovel, Lisa Thalji: Social and Sexual Networks: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health


• Index

Professor Martina Morris is Blumstein-Jordan Chair in the Departments of Sociology and Statistics at the University of Washington. She is also Director of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, Director of the Sociobehavioural and Prevention Research Core at the Center for AIDS Research, and Co-Director of the Behaviour Research Training Program at the Center for AIDS Research. She has been Professor at Pennsylvania State University and Associate Professor at Columbia University.