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...
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug taken by HIV-negative people before and after sex that reduces the risk of getting HIV. This book demonstrates that the PrEP journey is infused with paradoxes and argues for a more social and relational appro...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1997, Aids and Adolescents provided an insight into a wide range of adolescent issues which were rarely compiled in one volume at the time. Much of the HIV epidemic response had been at the individual level in the ho...Daugiau...
The story of how a boy came to be infected with blood borne viruses, and in spite of multiple death sentences, lived to become the worlds first ever LGBTQ+ Ambassador for Haemophilia, winning the battle to secure a public enquiry into the Infected B...Daugiau...
Neuropsychiatric Complications of HIV: A Challenging Health Concern examines these neuropsychiatric complications prevalent in those who are HIV positive, providing clinical correlation, translational significance, and details guides to neuroc...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Oct-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469680842)
In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV thro...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469680859)
In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV thr...Daugiau...
This book explores the development of a better global governance for health. It identifies how health issues, such as HIV/AIDS and pandemic influenza, are framed in such a way as to resonate with a set of ideas, or worldviews, associated with particu...Daugiau...
The report titled The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads, demonstrates the HIV response is at a crossroads: success or failure will be determined by which path leaders take. The report shows that the decisions leaders make this year will determine...Daugiau...
In this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, guest editors Dr. Daniel A. Solomon and Paul E. Sax bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Advances in the Management of HIV. Top experts in the field review the state of the...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Aug-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032670898)
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the discourse on health in India, examining governance, policies, programmes, and the involvement of the state and civil society in ensuring health for all and especially for people living with HIV/AI...Daugiau...
In highlighting how a WHO Public Health Approach (PHA) has been successfully used in developing countries to provide HIV/AIDS patients with antiretroviral therapy (ART), this important book provides a template for how the PHA can be implemented to...Daugiau...
Mit dem Beginn der AIDS-Krise existierte bereits eine ausdifferenzierte Schwulenbewegung und Community in Westdeutschland. Diese war in der Folge mit einer radikalen Veränderung ihrer Lebenswelt konfrontiert. Neben der unmittelbaren Bedrohung durch ......Daugiau...
The Healing Power of Community offers a diverse cross section of interdisciplinary, and depth-psychological perspectives in support of using mutual aid approaches, in all levels of group and community practice, as a remedy for individualism...Daugiau...
The Healing Power of Community offers a diverse cross section of interdisciplinary, and depth-psychological perspectives in support of using mutual aid approaches, in all levels of group and community practice, as a remedy for individualism...Daugiau...
HIV and AIDS devastated communities across Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. In the midst of this profound health crisis, nurses were caregivers and activists, both on and off the wards, and played a central role in shaping an innovative public healt...Daugiau...
Alexander McClelland, Eric Kostiuk Williams, Robert Suttle
Serija: Q+ Public
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Jun-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978832060)
Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing ones HIV-positive status to sex partners has historically been regarded as a serious criminal offence. Criminalized Lives describes how this appr...Daugiau...
Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing ones HIV-positive status to sex partners has historically been regarded as a serious criminal offence. Criminalized Lives describes how this approach has di...Daugiau...
Matthew Jones provides the first full-length perspective on Western musical responses to the AIDS epidemic and explores how English-language popular music was used, composed, and performed in the context of the North American crisis. ...Daugiau...
Roberto Morozzo Della Rocca, Caroline Swinton, Jeffrey D Sachs, Paul Elie
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jun-2024, Other book format, Leidėjas: Georgetown University Press, ISBN-13: 9781647124311)
SantEgidio, a Catholic social movement rooted in the gospel and friendship, pursues projects such as peacemaking efforts that brought an end to civil wars in Mozambique and Burundi in the 1990s. This book describes SantEgidios DREAM project, wh...Daugiau...
Following the development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs), many people affected by HIV in the 1980s and 1990s have now been living with the condition for decades.Drawing on perspectives from leading scholars in Bangladesh, Canada, Hong Kong, New...Daugiau...
The shocking true story of the infected blood scandal: the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, which saw people infected with HIV by a revolutionary medical treatment and a cover-up from governments and the multi-billion-dollar plasma industry....Daugiau...
SantEgidio, a Catholic social movement rooted in the gospel and friendship, pursues projects such as peacemaking efforts that brought an end to civil wars in Mozambique and Burundi in the 1990s. This book describes SantEgidios DREAM project, wh...Daugiau...
Roberto Morozzo della Rocca, Caroline Swinton, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Paul Elie
(Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Georgetown University Press, ISBN-13: 9781647124298)
The story of an innovative program of treatment for AIDS in Africa that succeeded in the face of international development agencies afro pessimismUntil this century, Western governments and foundations framing policies for AIDS re...Daugiau...
This book explores the relationship between COVID-19 and AIDS. It considers both how the earlier HIV pandemic informed our engagement with COVID-19, as well as the ways in which COVID-19 has changed how we remember and experience AIDS.Indiv...Daugiau...
