Topics addressed include problems encountered in AIDS research and prevention programs for racial minorities in the United States and intravenous (IV) drug use in Alaska, particularly among American Indians and Alaskan natives and its relationship to HIV infection. Problems with prevention, research, and treatment of these individuals who are both IV drug users and who are infected with HIV are discussed in relation to education, policy, and ethical issues. An analysis of data from a study of 604 gay men in New York City provides important information about the interaction between alcohol consumption and high-risk sexual behavior considering alcoholism as drug abuse. An ethnographic study describes the actual process of transmission of HIV in shooting galleries in Miami, Florida. The monograph concludes with a review of the "Bleach man" health psychology approach for AIDS prevention among IV drug users. Numerous references