Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

HIV history, illness, transmission, and treatment / Ryan M. Kull -- Underlying principles of helping in the HIV field / Hugo Kamya -- Cultural competence and HIV / Manoj Paradasani, Claudia Lucia Moreno, & Nicholas Robertson Forge -- The human rights framework applied to HIV services and policy / Cynthia Cannon Poindexter -- HIV-related case management / Douglas M. Brooks -- HIV-related crisis intervention and counseling / 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 -- Administration of HIV services : program development, management, and fund development / Dana B. Marlowe -- HIV-related community organizing and grassroots advocacy / Larry M. Gant -- HIV-related political and legislative intervention / Gary Bailey -- HIV prevention innovations and challenges / 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 and adolescents / Lori Wiener & Susan Taylor-Brown -- HIV-infected and HIV-affected midlife and older persons / Charles A. Emlet -- HIV and black and African American communities in the twenty-first century / Darrell P. Wheeler ... [et al.] -- Latinos and HIV : a framework to develop evidence-based strategies / Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Alida Bouris, & Susan M. Gallego -- HIV-affected caregivers / Helen Land -- Afterword : looking back, looking forward in HIV social work / Cynthia Cannon Poindexter & Nathan L. Linsk.