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Based on solid qualitative and quantitative data, this book examines the effect of an HIV peer education program for adolescents in Yi minority rural communities in Southwest China, and delineates factors affecting the implementation of the project in a local community with their own traditional organizations, marriage institutions and medical beliefs. The author provides unique insights in conducting HIV prevention in ethnic minority population with perspectives of both anthropology and public health.

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Shan Qiao, a PhD in Department of International Health in Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,now works as a post-doc fellow in Department of Pediatrics, Prevention Research Center in Wayne State University School of Medicine. Shan´s research interest focuses on health education and health promotion,program implementation and evaluation

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