Health Education Research Vol.20 no.2, © Oxford University Press 2005; All rights reserved
Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail
Catherine CampbellJames Currey, Oxford, 2003
214 pp, ISBN 0-85255-868-6
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Catherine Campbell's book explores the processes by which a multi-faceted and theoretically informed HIV prevention programme in Summertown, South African appeared not to work. The programme aimed to involve local youth, mineworkers and sex workers in peer education in order that people from these groups could modify their behaviour and enhance their sexual health. It also aimed to bring together representatives of these
Assistant Director, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK