Demographic factors affecting the U.S.-Mexico border health status / Federico Gerardo de Cosío and Andrés Boadella -- The border colonias and the problem of communication : applying anthropology for outreach / Duncan Earle -- Life histories of four Chicano heroin injecting drug users in Laredo, Texas / Avelardo Valdez and Alberto G. Mata Jr. -- Dangerous relationships : effects of early exposure to violence in women's lives on the border / João B. Ferreira-Pinto, Rebeca L. Ramos, and Alberto G. Mata Jr. -- The difference a line makes : women's lives in Douglas, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, Sonora / Ellen R. Hansen -- Creating a future for Hispanic mothers and daughters on the U.S.-Mexico border / Josefina Villamil Tinajero and Dee Ann Spencer -- Living with HIV/AIDS in a rural border county : women's service delivery needs / Donna Castañeda -- Community-based health promotion and community health advisors : prevention works when they do it / Mary Sánchez-Bane and Eva M. Moya Guzmán -- Rural health on the border and New Mexico's models for care, community empowerment, and cooperation / Martha Oehmke Loustaunau -- The medical care systems in Mexico and the United States : convergence or deterioration? The view from the border / David C. Warner -- The Sunland Park/Camino Real partnership : landfill politics in a border community / Ellen Rosell -- Community-university partnerships addressing environmental issues along the U.S.-Mexico border / James VanDerslice, Amy K. Liebman, and Theresa L. Byrd.