The HIV and AIDS epidemic continues to grow globally and an overwhelming majority of all infections in the twenty-first century have occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. Encouragingly, however, new infections are decreasing in this region. This importa...Daugiau...
This book examines the impact of epidemics in Africa, exploring some of the adaptation and crisis management strategies adopted to tackle COVID-19, Ebola, and HIV-AIDS. The authors reflect on lessons learned from solving complex problems and diffi...Daugiau...
Susan Sontags celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as one of the most liberating books of its time. A cance...Daugiau...
Dr. Harry W. Haverkos had his first encounter with an AIDS patient in 1980. Three years later, he challenged the widely accepted belief that the sole cause of AIDS was HIV, proposing that factors like nitrite inhalants and cytomegalovirus also...Daugiau...
This book centres on women living with HIV in South Africa who have navigated affective relationships, activist networks, government institutions and global coalitions to transform health policies that govern access to HIV medicines. Drawing on 20...Daugiau...
The worlds decades-long response to HIV is at an inflection point. The 2024 UNAIDS global report, The Urgency of Now, demonstrated that the world now has the means to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Midway to the 2025 milestone set in J...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226838649)
A deep examination of how new, legalistic norms affected the trajectory of global HIV care and altered the practice of medicine. HIV emerged in the world at a time when medicine and healthcare were undergoing two major transformation...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Apr-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226838625)
HIV emerged in the world at a time when medicine and healthcare were undergoing two major transformations: globalization and a turn toward more legally inflected, rule-based ways of doing things. It accelerated both trends. Although pestilence and d...Daugiau...
This book is an introductory text that presents fundamental knowledge and recent advances in virology. It provides comprehensive coverage of different aspects like classification, structure, emerging viruses, cancer-causing viruses, and vir...Daugiau...
This book is an introductory text that presents fundamental knowledge and recent advances in virology. It provides comprehensive coverage of different aspects like classification, structure, emerging viruses, cancer-causing viruses, and vir...Daugiau...
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug taken by HIV-negative people that reduces the risk of getting HIV. Comparing two case studies in Denmark and Zimbabwe, this book demonstrates six...Daugiau...
The first part of this book, composed of two chapters, investigates the global trends in the HIV landscape that have led to increased vulnerability to HIV infection among gay and bisexual men and transgender women in Africa and the Caribbean. We exa...Daugiau...
