Evaluating AIDS Prevention Programs

With insightful discussion of program evaluation and the efforts of the Centers for Disease Control, this book presents a set of clear-cut recommendations to help ensure that the substantial resources devoted to the fight against AIDS will be used most effectively.

This expanded edition of Evaluating AIDS Prevention Programs covers evaluation strategies and outcome measurements, including a realistic review of the factors that make evaluation of AIDS programs particularly difficult. Randomized field experiments are examined, focusing on the use of alternative treatments rather than placebo controls. The book also reviews nonexperimental techniques, including a critical examination of evaluation methods that are observational rather than experimental—a necessity when randomized experiments are infeasible.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Summary
• 1 Design and Implementation of Evaluating Research
• 2 Measurement of Outcomes
• 3 Evaluating Media Campaigns
• 4 Evaluating Health Education and Risk Reduction Projects
• 5 Evaluating HIV Testing and Counseling Projects
• 6 Randomized and Observational Approaches to Evaluating the Effectiveness of AIDS Prevention Programs
• Appendixes
• A Collaborative Contracting Strategy
• B Oversight and Coordination Strategy
• C Methodological Issues in AIDS Survey
• D Sampling and Randomization: Technical Questions about Evaluating CDC's Three Major AIDS Prevention Programs
• E Ancillary, Emerging, and Related Projects
• F The Use of Selection Models to Evaluate AIDS Interventions with Observational Data
• Index
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