Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases Books
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Setting Priorities for HIVAIDS Interventions A
Book SynopsisHIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This book presents the costâbenefit analysis (CBA) framework in a well-researched and accessible manner to ensure that the most important considerations are recognized and incorporated.Trade Review‘Professor Brent’s book is a superlative addition to the HIV/AIDS policy literature. Both non-specialists and specialists in policy evaluation will benefit from the lucid exposition of cost–benefit analysis (CBA) methods applied to the most critical and far-reaching problem that challenges social institutions and individual behavior. Essentially, Professor Brent has taken his vast experience in cost–benefit analysis, and on the ground African research, to apply CBA in a compelling and insightful manner. This book re-examines HIV/AIDS policy in Sub-Saharan countries where the devastation is an infection tsunami. . . Finding what actually works may be difficult, but Professor Brent argues persuasively that using a CBA framework is the best approach.’ -- William S. Cartwright, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: WHY COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS IS NEEDED TO SET HIV/AIDS PRIORITIES 1. Introduction to the Book 2. Why Not Just Simply do What is Right and Try to Save Lives? 3. Myths and Misinformation 4. Counterintuitive Results 5. What is Wrong with Setting any Targets? 6. What is Wrong with Setting the Particular MDG Targets? 7. Cost–Benefit Analysis 101 8. Cost–Benefit Analysis 201 PART II: HIV/AIDS AS A HUNGER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE 9. Introduction to Part II 10. HIV and Hunger 11. Nutrition and HIV at the Individual Level 12. Nutrition and HIV at the Country Level 13. Income as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 14. Education as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 15. Islam as a Factor Lowering HIV Rates 16. Impact of HIV on Agricultural Households 17. Agricultural Policy and HIV Interventions 18. Sex and HIV I: The Role of Transmission 19. Sex and HIV II: The Role of Concurrency 20. Sex and HIV III: The Role of Networks PART III: COST–BENEFIT METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 21. Introduction to Part III 22. Threshold Analysis Theory 23. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Effectiveness of HIV Education 24. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Benefits of Avoiding HIV 25. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Costs of a Possible HIV/AIDS Vaccine 26. Willingness to Pay Theory 27. Willingness to Pay Practice: The Benefits of Condoms 28. Cost Minimization Theory 29. Cost Minimization Practice: The Costs of Treating TB 30. Cost-Effectiveness Theory 31. Cost-Effectiveness Practice: The Benefits of ARVs 32. Human Capital Theory 33. Human Capital Practice: The Benefits of Female Primary Education 34. Value of a Statistical Life Theory 35. Value of a Statistical Life Practice: The Benefits of VCT PART IV: SOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN CBA 36. Introduction to IV 37. Commodification: Everything is Seen as a Commodity to be Bought and Sold 38. What is So “Social” About CBA? Fundamentals of CBA 39. Social and Private Perspectives in CBA 40. CBA and Equity I: Allowing for Ability to Pay 41. CBA and Equity II: Allocating by Time and Other Non-Price Methods 42. Conclusions I: How Not to Set Priorities for HIV 43. Conclusions II: Using CBA to Set Priorities for HIV References Index
£29.95
MJ - Ohio University Press The Children of Africa Confront AIDS From
Book SynopsisThe Children of Africa Confront AIDS depicts the reality of how African children deal with the AIDS epidemic, and how the discourse of their vulnerability affects acts of coping and courage.Trade Review“A stellar contribution in the best tradition of applied social science while providing a bridgehead into the courageous world of the African orphan.” * Africa Today *
£23.39
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nutrition and HIV
Book SynopsisWritten by a specialist dietitian for dietitians and related health professionals Contributions from an international team of authors Covers paediatric and adult care Includes international case studies .Trade Review“Students and other health care professionals working and studying this area will also find Nutrition and HIV an important and valuable resource.” (MedReview, 1 November 2012) "This book delivers comprehensive, evidenced-based information on the nutritional management of HIV patients. Given the great detail, it would best serve as a resource for dietitians who regularly care for HIV patients." (Doody's, 19 August 2011) Table of ContentsList of Contributors xiv Preface xviii Acknowledgements xix SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to Human Immunodeficiency Virus 3 Tanya Welz, Amanda Samarawickrama, Vivian Pribram, Bavithra Nathan, Lisa Hamzah and Emily Cheserem 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Current state of the epidemic 4 1.3 HIV transmission 5 1.4 About the virus 6 1.5 Diagnosis of HIV 8 1.6 Measurement of CD4 cells 8 1.7 Natural history of untreated HIV infection and AIDS 10 1.8 Staging and classification of HIV disease 10 1.9 Monitoring the HIV pandemic 12 1.10 Prevention 13 1.11 Effect of antiretroviral therapy on the HIV epidemic 14 1.12 Stigma 14 2 Introduction to Nutrition and HIV 18 Vivian Pribram 2.1 Introduction 18 2.2 Malnutrition, infectious disease and immune function 19 2.3 HIV infection and decreased nutritional status 21 2.4 Nutritional screening and assessment 22 2.5 Metabolic and morphological complications 23 2.6 Paediatric undernutrition and maternal and child health 24 2.7 Healthy eating and management of HIV for well-being and longevity 26 2.8 Management of co-morbidities and serious non-HIV conditions 27 2.9 End-of-life care and ethical issues 29 SECTION 2: PAEDIATRIC NUTRITION, MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH 3 Malnutrition, Infant Feeding, Maternal and Child Health 35 Theresa Banda, Vivian Pribram, Margaret Lawson, Catherine Mkangama and Gertrude Nyirenda 3.1 Introduction 35 3.2 Maternal health and nutrition 36 3.3 Mother-to-child transmission 41 3.4 Infant feeding in the context of HIV 43 3.5 Malnutrition in children with HIV 49 4 Paediatric Nutritional Screening, Assessment and Support 58 Lisa Cooke 4.1 Introduction 58 4.2 Nutritional assessment and screening 58 4.3 Dietary assessment – what to do 61 4.4 Nutritional support 68 5 Adherence, Symptom Management, Psychological Aspects and Multidisciplinary Care of Children with HIV 72 Daya Nayagam, Paul Archer, Susheela Sababady, Shema Doshi, and Ella Sherlock 5.1 Transmission of HIV in children and young people 72 5.2 Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (vertical transmission) 73 5.3 Clinical presentation of paediatric HIV infection 73 5.4 Failure to thrive 73 5.5 Central nervous system 74 5.6 Hepatosplenomegaly 74 5.7 Older children 74 5.8 HIV disease and opportunistic infections 74 5.9 Prophylaxis 74 5.10 Antiretroviral treatment for children 75 5.11 Monitoring of paediatric HIV infection 77 5.12 Caring for children and their families in the community 77 5.13 Adherence, symptom management, psychological aspects and multidisciplinary care of children with HIV and AIDS 78 5.14 Nutritional care in a multidisciplinary team setting 81 5.15 The psychological effects of HIV on family functioning – key themes which arise in a child setting 82 6 Healthy Eating, Prevention and Management of Obesity and Long-Term Complications in Children 87 Julie Lanigan 6.1 Introduction 87 6.2 Metabolic complications 88 6.3 Malnutrition and HIV 88 6.4 Micronutrients and HIV 88 6.5 Obesity 90 6.6 Lipodystrophy 91 6.7 Assessment and monitoring 94 6.8 Dietary intake assessment 94 6.9 Advice for healthy eating 94 6.10 Conclusion 100 SECTION 3: NUTRITIONAL MANAGEMENT OF HIV DISEASE 7 Decreased Nutritional Status and Nutritional Interventions for People Living with HIV 107 Vivian Pribram 7.1 Introduction/Background 107 7.2 Malnutrition, weight loss and wasting 107 7.3 Significance of involuntary weight loss 108 7.4 Definitions of HIV-related weight loss and wasting 109 7.5 Prevalence 110 7.6 Aetiology 110 7.7 Nutritional requirements 116 7.8 Nutritional management 117 7.9 Non-nutritional treatments for HIV-related muscle wasting 122 7.10 Micronutrients 125 7.11 Conclusions 128 8 Nutritional Screening and Assessment 132 Sarah Woodman, Michelle Sutcliffe and Amy McDonald 8.1 Overview 132 8.2 Nutritional screening in the clinical setting 134 8.3 Nutritional assessment 136 8.4 Biochemical assessment 146 8.5 Clinical assessment 148 8.6 Dietary and lifestyle assessment 150 8.7 Conclusion 153 9 Symptom Control and Management 157 Louise Houtzager and Tim Barnes 9.1 Symptoms experienced by people living with HIV 157 9.2 Referring patients to a dietitian for symptom control and management 158 9.3 Goals of dietary symptom management strategies 159 9.4 Symptom control and management of diarrhoea 159 9.5 Symptom control and management of loss of appetite 165 9.6 Mouth pain, taste changes and swallowing difficulties 165 9.7 Reflux (heartburn) 170 9.8 Symptom control and management of nausea and vomiting 171 9.9 Symptom control and management of fatigue 171 9.10 Conclusion 174 10 The Nutritional Management of Complications Associated with HIV and Antiretroviral Therapy 176 Alastair Duncan and Karen Klassen 10.1 Introduction 176 10.2 Aetiology of metabolic side effects 177 10.3 Prevalence of metabolic side effects 178 10.4 Assessment of metabolic parameters and cardiovascular disease risk 179 10.5 Management of dyslipidaemias 180 10.6 Management of impaired glucose metabolism 185 10.7 Management of altered fat distribution 188 10.8 Altered bone metabolism 193 10.9 Management of lactic acidaemia 199 10.10 Peripheral neuropathy 199 10.11 Routine assessment, dietary and lifestyle management of metabolic complications 200 10.12 Summary 201 11 Community Interventions in Resource-Limited Settings 212 Claire de Menezes and Kate Ogden 11.1 Introduction 212 11.2 HIV and nutrition in resource-limited settings 213 11.3 Assessment of needs and capacities 215 11.4 Targeting 217 11.5 Nutrition counselling and education 218 11.6 Targeted food supplementation programmes 221 11.7 Support of HIV-positive pregnant women 223 11.8 Breastfeeding and infant feeding support 225 11.9 Support for other vulnerable groups 227 11.10 Treatment of severe acute malnutrition in HIV context 229 11.11 Micronutrient supplementation programmes 230 11.12 Livelihood support and ensuring access to food 230 11.13 Community mobilisation to support people living with HIV 234 11.14 Monitoring 236 11.15 Other issues 237 11.16 Conclusion 238 SECTION 4: HEALTHY LIVING AND LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT 12 Medications, Adherence and Interactions with Food 243 Angela Bailey 12.1 HIV medications – background 243 12.2 Drug interactions 256 12.3 Micronutrients used in HIV infection 257 12.4 Food and drug interactions 257 12.5 Adherence 261 12.6 Adherence and food 264 12.7 Looking to the future 266 12.8 Conclusion 268 13 Healthy Eating and Well-Being 275 Vivian Pribram and Kirsten Foster 13.1 Diet, lifestyle and disease prevention 275 13.2 The importance of healthy eating for people living with HIV (PLHIV) 276 13.3 Factors that affect healthy eating and improved well-being among PLHIV 277 13.4 Other lifestyle factors that influence health outcomes 280 13.5 Principles of healthy eating 282 13.6 Portion sizes and quantity of food required 295 13.7 Weight management for people living with HIV 295 13.8 Summary 299 14 Exercise and Physical Activity and Long-Term Management of HIV 302 Joanna Lucy Bowtell and Rebecca Weissbort 14.1 Introduction 302 14.2 Observational studies 304 14.3 Effect of exercise on immunological parameters 305 14.4 Effect of exercise on wasting 306 14.5 Management of metabolic disturbances with exercise programmes 308 14.6 Effect of exercise on quality of life and physical capacity 312 14.7 Exercise prescription for people living with HIV/AIDS 313 14.8 Practical considerations for exercise prescription 314 14.9 Exercise programme for a patient living with HIV 316 14.10 Conclusion 319 15 Mental Health 324 Shirley Hamilton and Christian Lee 15.1 Introduction 324 15.2 Mental disorders and nutrition 324 15.3 Acute cognitive impairment 325 15.4 Delirium and nutrition 326 15.5 Chronic cognitive impairment 326 15.6 Chronic cognitive impairment and nutrition 327 15.7 Depression 327 15.8 Depression and nutrition 328 15.9 Management of depression 329 15.10 Suicide 332 15.11 Management of suicidal ideation 333 15.12 Mania 333 15.13 Mania and nutrition 333 15.14 Anxiety 334 15.15 Psychosis 336 15.16 Socio-economic factors for mental health/HIV clients affecting nutrition 339 15.17 Personality disorders 340 15.18 Dual diagnosis 340 15.19 Nutritional management of patients with HIV/mental health issues 341 16 Complementary and Alternative Therapy 345 Charle Maritz, Sharon Byrne and Vivian Pribram 16.1 Introduction 345 16.2 Safety and regulation of CAT therapy 346 16.3 Use of CAT 346 16.4 Factors influencing use of CAT 347 16.5 CAT use in HIV 347 16.6 Reasons for CAT use among PLHIV 348 16.7 Information sources about CAT 349 16.8 Disclosure of CAT use 349 16.9 Evidence for the use of CAT 349 16.10 Dietary supplements 350 16.11 Dietary supplement use among PLHIV 350 16.12 Knowledge of drug–CAT interactions 351 16.13 Herbal remedies 353 16.14 Addressing patients’ use of CAT 356 16.15 Conclusions 356 17 Food and Water Safety 360 Louise Houtzager 17.1 Introduction 360 17.2 Why food and water safety is important for PLHIV 360 17.3 Causes of food- and waterborne illness in PLHIV 362 17.4 Management and prevention of food-borne illness 373 17.5 Conclusion 380 SECTION 5: THE NUTRITIONAL MANAGEMENT OF HIV AND CO-MORBIDITIES 18 The Nutritional Management of Patients Living with Tuberculosis and HIV Co-Infection 385 Louise Houtzager, Tim Barnes and Kirilee Matters 18.1 Tuberculosis 385 18.2 Epidemiology 386 18.3 The relationship between tuberculosis and HIV 387 18.4 Medical issues 388 18.5 Nutrition, HIV infection and TB 390 18.6 Nutrition screening 392 18.7 Nutrition assessment: special considerations in TB 392 18.8 Nutritional treatment/intervention 393 18.9 Recommendations 394 19 The Nutritional Management of Patients Living with HIV and Renal Disease 396 Deepa Kariyawasam 19.1 Introduction 396 19.2 Presentation and symptoms 397 19.3 Screening 397 19.4 Diagnosis 397 19.5 Classification of chronic kidney disease 397 19.6 Treatment 398 19.7 Methods of renal replacement therapy 398 19.8 Renal transplantation 399 19.9 Nutritional issues on dialysis 402 19.10 Nutritional assessment 402 19.11 Nutritional requirements 403 19.12 Treatment 403 19.13 Conclusion 409 20 The Nutritional Management of Patients Living with HIV and Liver Disease 412 Tracy Russell and Ruth Westwood 20.1 Introduction 412 20.2 Hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV 413 20.3 Nutrition and liver disease 415 20.4 Liver transplantation 420 20.5 Nutritional interventions for hepatitis C 420 20.6 HIV and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease 421 20.7 Use of complementary and alternative therapies (CAT) in liver disease 422 20.8 Vulnerable groups 423 20.9 Conclusion 424 21 Critical Care, Respiratory and Multi-organ Failure 427 Sarah Cassimjee 21.1 Background/overview 427 21.2 Diseases and infections associated with ITU admission 428 21.3 Sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) 430 21.4 Neurological failure 430 21.5 Cardiovascular failure 430 21.6 Gastrointestinal (GI) failure 430 21.7 Liver failure 430 21.8 Renal failure 431 21.9 Medical treatment 431 21.10 Nutritional considerations 431 21.11 Nutritional assessment 433 21.12 Nutritional requirements 433 21.13 Nutritional treatments/intervention 438 21.14 Early feeding and the use of enteral feeding protocols 438 21.15 Conclusion 439 22 Nutritional Management of Patients Living with HIV and Cancer 442 Rachael Donnelly and Rachel Barrett 22.1 Introduction 442 22.2 Science of cancer 443 22.3 Overview of cancer treatments 444 22.4 Cancers in HIV infection 447 22.5 Nutrition in the management of non-surgical oncology patients 451 SECTION 6: PALLIATIVE, END OF LIFE CARE AND NUTRITION 23 Nutrition and End of Life Care 459 Vivian Pribram 23.1 Introduction 459 23.2 Palliative care 461 23.3 Nutritional care in later stages of progressive illness 462 23.4 Ethical and legal considerations 464 23.5 Withdrawal of nutrition 469 23.6 Implications for practice 470 23.7 Conclusion 470 APPENDICES 473 Appendix 1 WHO Clinical Staging of HIV/AIDS for Adults and Adolescents 475 Appendix 2 Weight-for-Height Reference Card (87 cm and above) 477 Appendix 3 Weight-for-Length Reference Card (below 87 cm) 478 Appendix 4 Guidance Table to Identify Target Weight 479 Appendix 5 Basic Steps in Estimating Energy Requirements for Adults 480 Appendix 6 NICE Guidelines: What to Give in Hospital and the Community 482 Appendix 7 Basic Steps in Estimation of Nitrogen Requirements for Adults (Source: Elia, 1990) 484 Appendix 8 Summary of ESPEN Statements: HIV and Nutritional Therapy 485 Appendix 9 Form for Monitoring Anthropometry Measurements 487 Appendix 10 Equations to Calculate Height and Estimation of Height from Ulna Length 488 Appendix 11 Mid Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) 490 Appendix 12 Mid Arm Muscle Circumference (MAMC) 491 Appendix 13 Biochemical Reference Ranges 492 Appendix 14 Ways to Improve Adherence to TB Medication 493 Appendix 15 The BCG Vaccination 494 Index 495
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Johns Hopkins University Press A Womans Guide to Living with HIV Infection
Book SynopsisThis new edition of A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection includes the latest information on diagnosis and treatments as well as recent findings about pregnancy and HIV, starting treatments when you have HIV-related complications, liver health and hepatitis, and sexual health.Trade ReviewA wealth of information is included in a holistic, patient oriented format with helpful key questions prefacing each chapter and many supplemental, easy to understand tables and charts. Reference and Research Book NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Women and the HIV/AIDS EpidemicPart One: Adjusting to Life with HIV Infection1. Testing for HIV2. Finding a Primary Care Provider and Preparing for Your Visit3. HIV, the Immune System, and Monitoring TestsPart Two: Meeting the Challenge of HIV Infection4. Recognizing Symptoms and Preventing Complications5. Hepatitis and the Liver6. Treatments for HIVPart Three: Sexual and Gynecologic Health7. Protecting Yourself and Others8. Gynecologic Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases9. Human Papillomavirus Infections, Genital Warts, and Abnormal Pap SmearsPart Four: Reproduction10. Considering Pregnancy and Birth Control11. Pregnancy12. Menstrual PeriodsPart Five: Taking Care of Yourself: Special Considerations13. Breast Health, Bone Health, and Heart Health14. Alcohol Dependence, Drug Addiction, and Treatment15. Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse16. Managing Your Feelings17. Chronic Pain, Palliative Care, and Hospice18. Planning for the Future19. Research Studies and Clinical TrialsAppendix 1: Sample Tracking Sheet for Medications, Tests, and VaccinationsAppendix 2: Resources for People with HIVGlossaryKey ReferencesIndex
£37.35
Johns Hopkins University Press A Womans Guide to Living with HIV Infection
Book SynopsisThis new edition of A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection includes the latest information on diagnosis and treatments as well as recent findings about pregnancy and HIV, starting treatments when you have HIV-related complications, liver health and hepatitis, and sexual health.Trade ReviewA wealth of information is included in a holistic, patient oriented format with helpful key questions prefacing each chapter and many supplemental, easy to understand tables and charts. Reference and Research Book NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Women and the HIV/AIDS EpidemicPart One: Adjusting to Life with HIV Infection1. Testing for HIV2. Finding a Primary Care Provider and Preparing for Your Visit3. HIV, the Immune System, and Monitoring TestsPart Two: Meeting the Challenge of HIV Infection4. Recognizing Symptoms and Preventing Complications5. Hepatitis and the Liver6. Treatments for HIVPart Three: Sexual and Gynecologic Health7. Protecting Yourself and Others8. Gynecologic Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases9. Human Papillomavirus Infections, Genital Warts, and Abnormal Pap SmearsPart Four: Reproduction10. Considering Pregnancy and Birth Control11. Pregnancy12. Menstrual PeriodsPart Five: Taking Care of Yourself: Special Considerations13. Breast Health, Bone Health, and Heart Health14. Alcohol Dependence, Drug Addiction, and Treatment15. Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse16. Managing Your Feelings17. Chronic Pain, Palliative Care, and Hospice18. Planning for the Future19. Research Studies and Clinical TrialsAppendix 1: Sample Tracking Sheet for Medications, Tests, and VaccinationsAppendix 2: Resources for People with HIVGlossaryKey ReferencesIndex
£18.05
Johns Hopkins University Press The Impatient Dr. Lange
Book SynopsisThe incredible story of Joep Lange's life and his unrelenting quest to end the HIV epidemic. When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in July 2014, the world wondered if a cure for HIV had fallen from the sky and disappeared among the burning debris. Seated in the plane's business-class cabin was Joseph Lange, better known as Joep, a shrewd Dutch doctor who had revolutionized the world of HIV and AIDS and was working on a cure. Dr. Lange graduated from medical school in 1981, right as a new plague swept across the globe. His story became intertwined with the story of HIV. At once a physician, scientist, AIDS activist, and medical diplomat, Lange studied ways to battle HIV and prevent its spread from mother to child. Fighting the injustices of poverty, Lange advocated for better access to health care for the poor and the vulnerable. He championed the drug cocktail that finally helped rein in the disease and was a vocal proponent of prophylactic treatment Trade ReviewMore than just a biography, The Impatient Dr. Lange is a must-read for medical students and history buffs; it is also a sociopolitical overview of Europe and Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. The heartbreaking stories of HIV and AIDS patients across the globe, paired with Lange’s relentless drive, propel the narrative forward. Clear, concise, and thoroughly researched, this book shows how one person with ambition, compassion, hope, and the right resources can accomplish extraordinary things.—Aimee Jodoin, Foreword ReviewsEngrossing—Laurie Garrett, The LancetYasmin offers a vivid sense of Lange's complexity, his faults and virtues, and the people and the causes he loved . . . Readers interested in the history of HIV and AIDS or biographies of persons who played a significant role in global health will find this a fascinating read.—Library JournalTable of ContentsForeword How This Book Came to Be Chapter One. The End Chapter Two. Origin Stories Chapter Three. The Epidemic Chapter Four. Learn Your Enemy Chapter Five. Unusual Bureaucrat Chapter Six. Trials Chapter Seven. Denial Chapter Eight. A Is for Activist Chapter Nine. Money and Faith Chapter Ten. Cure Epilogue Acknowledgments Index
£19.47
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina To Make the Wounded Whole The African American
Book SynopsisOffers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts.
£73.50
The University of North Carolina Press To Make the Wounded Whole
Book SynopsisOffers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts.
£27.60
Duke University Press AIDS and the Distribution of Crises
Book SynopsisThe contributors to AIDS and the Distribution of Crises outline the myriad ways that the AIDS pandemic exists within a network of varied historical, overlapping, and ongoing crises borne of global capitalism and colonial, racialized, and gendered violence.Trade Review“An exceptionally exciting book, AIDS and the Distribution of Crises is unlike any other collection on HIV/AIDS I have read. This volume makes critically important interventions into our past, present, and future imaginations of HIV/AIDS. It should be widely read and taught.” -- Jennifer Brier, author of * Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis *“This volume reshapes our critical orientation by insisting on a conception of the AIDS pandemic not as a rarefied historical period or a particular epidemiological tragedy but rather as a space for opening up theoretical and conceptual inquires into the violent consequences caused by the ideological deployment and dissemination of ‘crisis.’ A capacious and compelling rendering of the AIDS pandemic, it offers a potent dwelling space for critical reflection and a powerful provocation into thinking otherwise about AIDS and the world at large.” -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of * Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora *“AIDS and the Distribution of Crises is a curated collection of perspectives and scholarly work on the past, present, and future of the global AIDS crises. . . . Any of us in the health care field who interact with patients, work in health policy, teach or work with future physicians or learners, or are interested in global health should read this compilation. The writing is illuminating, engaging and eye-opening.” -- Shruti Varadarajan * Family Medicine *Table of ContentsForeword / Cindy Patton vii Preface / Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani xvii Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction / Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani 1 1. Dispatches on the Globalization of AIDS / A Dialogue between Theodore (Ted) Kerr, Catherine Yuk-ping Lo, Ian Bradley-Perrin, Sarah Schulman, and Eric A. Stanley, with an Introduction by Nishant Shahani 29 2. The Costs of Living: Reflections on Global Health Crises / Bishnupriya Ghosh 60 3. AIDS, Women of Color Feminisms, Queer and Trans of Color Critiques, and the Crises of Knowledge Production / Jih-Fei Cheng 76 4. Safe, Soulful Sex: HIV/AIDS Talk / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery 93 5. AIDS Histories Otherwise: The Case of Haitians in Montreal / Viviane Namaste 131 6. "A Voice Demonic and Proud": Shifting the Geographies of Blame in Assotto Saint's "Sacred Life: Art and AIDS" / Darius Bost 148 7. Crisis Infrastructures: AIDS Activism Meets Internet Regulation / Cait McKinney 162 8. Dispatches from the Pasts/Memories of AIDS / A Dialogue between Cecilia Aldarondo, Roger Hallas, Pablo Alvarez, Jim Hubbard, and Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyễn , with an Introduction by Jih-Fei Cheng 183 9. Black Gay Men's Sexual Health and the Means of Pleasure in the Age of AIDS / Marlon M. Bailey 217 10. HIV, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism: Understanding PTIS, Crisis Resolution, and the Art of Ceremony / Andrew J. Jolivette 236 11. Activism and Identity in the Ruins of Representation / Juana María Rodríguez 257 12. Dispatches from the Futures of AIDS / A Dialogue between Emily Bass, Pato Hebert, Elton Naswood, Margaret Rhee, and Jessica Whitbread, with Images by Quito Ziegler and and Introduction by Alexandra Juhasz 288 Afterword. On Crisis and Abolition / C. Riley Snorton 313 Contributors 319 Index 329
£112.20
Duke University Press AIDS and the Distribution of Crises
Book SynopsisAIDS and the Distribution of Crises engages with the AIDS pandemic as a network of varied historical, overlapping, and ongoing crises born of global capitalism and colonial, racialized, gendered, and sexual violence. Drawing on their investments in activism, media, anticolonialism, feminism, and queer and trans of color critiques, the scholars, activists, and artists in this volume outline how the neoliberal logic of “crisis” structures how AIDS is aesthetically, institutionally, and politically reproduced and experienced. Among other topics, the authors examine the writing of the history of AIDS; settler colonial narratives and laws impacting risk in Indigenous communities; the early internet regulation of both content and online AIDS activism; the Black gendered and sexual politics of pleasure, desire, and (in)visibility; and how persistent attention to white men has shaped AIDS as intrinsic to multiple, unremarkable crises among people of color and in the Global STrade Review“An exceptionally exciting book, AIDS and the Distribution of Crises is unlike any other collection on HIV/AIDS I have read. This volume makes critically important interventions into our past, present, and future imaginations of HIV/AIDS. It should be widely read and taught.” -- Jennifer Brier, author of * Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis *“This volume reshapes our critical orientation by insisting on a conception of the AIDS pandemic not as a rarefied historical period or a particular epidemiological tragedy but rather as a space for opening up theoretical and conceptual inquires into the violent consequences caused by the ideological deployment and dissemination of ‘crisis.’ A capacious and compelling rendering of the AIDS pandemic, it offers a potent dwelling space for critical reflection and a powerful provocation into thinking otherwise about AIDS and the world at large.” -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of * Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora *“AIDS and the Distribution of Crises is a curated collection of perspectives and scholarly work on the past, present, and future of the global AIDS crises. . . . Any of us in the health care field who interact with patients, work in health policy, teach or work with future physicians or learners, or are interested in global health should read this compilation. The writing is illuminating, engaging and eye-opening.” -- Shruti Varadarajan * Family Medicine *Table of ContentsForeword / Cindy Patton vii Preface / Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani xvii Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction / Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani 1 1. Dispatches on the Globalization of AIDS / A Dialogue between Theodore (Ted) Kerr, Catherine Yuk-ping Lo, Ian Bradley-Perrin, Sarah Schulman, and Eric A. Stanley, with an Introduction by Nishant Shahani 29 2. The Costs of Living: Reflections on Global Health Crises / Bishnupriya Ghosh 60 3. AIDS, Women of Color Feminisms, Queer and Trans of Color Critiques, and the Crises of Knowledge Production / Jih-Fei Cheng 76 4. Safe, Soulful Sex: HIV/AIDS Talk / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery 93 5. AIDS Histories Otherwise: The Case of Haitians in Montreal / Viviane Namaste 131 6. "A Voice Demonic and Proud": Shifting the Geographies of Blame in Assotto Saint's "Sacred Life: Art and AIDS" / Darius Bost 148 7. Crisis Infrastructures: AIDS Activism Meets Internet Regulation / Cait McKinney 162 8. Dispatches from the Pasts/Memories of AIDS / A Dialogue between Cecilia Aldarondo, Roger Hallas, Pablo Alvarez, Jim Hubbard, and Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyễn , with an Introduction by Jih-Fei Cheng 183 9. Black Gay Men's Sexual Health and the Means of Pleasure in the Age of AIDS / Marlon M. Bailey 217 10. HIV, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism: Understanding PTIS, Crisis Resolution, and the Art of Ceremony / Andrew J. Jolivette 236 11. Activism and Identity in the Ruins of Representation / Juana María Rodríguez 257 12. Dispatches from the Futures of AIDS / A Dialogue between Emily Bass, Pato Hebert, Elton Naswood, Margaret Rhee, and Jessica Whitbread, with Images by Quito Ziegler and and Introduction by Alexandra Juhasz 288 Afterword. On Crisis and Abolition / C. Riley Snorton 313 Contributors 319 Index 329
£27.90
New York University Press Men at Risk
Book SynopsisPresents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health researchAlthough the first AIDS cases were attributed to men having sex with men, over 70% of HIV infections worldwide are now estimated to occur through sex between women and men. In Men at Risk, Shari L. Dworkin argues that the centrality of heterosexual relationship dynamics to the transmission of HIV means that both women and men need to be taken into account in gender-specific HIV/AIDS prevention interventions. She looks at the costs of masculinity that shape men's HIV risks, such as their initiation of sex and their increased status from sex with multiple partners.Engaging with the common paradigm in HIV research that portrays only womenand not heterosexually active menas being vulnerable to HIV, Dworkin examines the gaps in public health knowledge that result in substandard treatment for HIV transmission and infection among heterosexual men both domestically aTrade ReviewMen at Risk offers an incisive critique of several decades of HIV prevention programming that has largely rendered heterosexually-active men invisible to public health knowledge and practice.It wrestles candidly with the many conceptual, methodological, and political dilemmas of feminist work on masculinities.But, it also points to important successes and opportunities in gender-transformative and intersectional work with men and boys. Dworkins account of this terrain is thoroughgoing and expert, but also forceful and politically clear-eyed. -- Christopher J. Colvin,Senior Researcher in HIV/AIDS at the University of Cape Town, South AfricaA timely and evocative contribution to the growing literature globally on masculinity and HIV prevention. With a focus firmly on heterosexual mens practices and experiences, Men at Risk fills a major gap.A & must read for scholars of gender and sexuality in relation to HIV, and a valuable resource to inspire policy makers and program developers. -- Peter Aggleton,author of Education, Vulnerability, and HIV/AIDS
£70.30
University of Toronto Press Seeing Red
Book SynopsisFeaturing the diverse experiences of people living with HIV, Seeing Red highlights various perspectives from academics, activists, and community workers who think ahead to the new and complex challenges associated with the condition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Michael Orsini, Suzanne Hindmarch & Marilou Gagnon Part 1. Systems Chapter 1. The Rights Response is (Still) Required: Preserving the Human Rights Core of HIV Exceptionalism in pursuing the End of AIDS Richard Elliott Chapter 2. HIV Criminalization as “Risk Management”: On the Importance of Structural Stigma Marilou Gagnon & Christine Vézina Chapter 3. Institutionalizing Risk in the “daddy-state”: Carceral Spaces as HIV Risk Environments Jennifer M. Kilty Chapter 4. We Are Still Sick but We Look Cured! The Iatrogenic Effects of HIV Public Health Policy on HIV Positive Gay Men Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco Part 2. Services Chapter 5. Aging Without A Net: Policy Barriers Facing Older Adults Living With HIV in Canada Kate Murzin & Charles Furlotte Chapter 6. Evaluation Policy at AIDS Service Organizations: Managing Multiple Accountabilities Nicole Greenspan Chapter 7. Living and Aging with HIV: Tiptoeing through a Pan-Canadian Policy Maze Ron Rosenes Chapter 8. Charting the Course: Exploring HIV, Employment and Income Security through an Episodic Disability Lens Wendy Porch & Tammy C. Yates Part 3. Populations Chapter 9. Governing Participation: A Critical Analysis of International and Canadian Texts Promoting the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV & AIDS Alex McClelland, Adrian Guta & Nicole Greenspan Chapter 10. What a Mess! Viewing Trans Women Living with HIV as Managers of Policy Mess Natalie Duchesne Chapter 11. “Good Medicine”: Decolonizing HIV Policy for Indigenous Women in Canada Tracey Prentice, Doris Peltier, Elizabeth Benson, Kerrigan Johnson, Kecia Larkin, Krista Shore & Renée Masching Chapter 12. Do it in a Good Way: Recommendations for Research and Policy in Indigenous Communities Aging with HIV/AIDS Chelsea Gabel, Randy Jackson & Chaneesa Ryan Chapter 13. On the Experience of Pregnancy: Stories of HIV-Positive Refugee Women in Canada Teresa Chulach, Marilou Gagnon & Dave Holmes Chapter 14. HIV and Hepatitis C Co-Infection: Pathways to Care, Pathways to Advocacy: A Conversation with Colleen Price Colleen Price Chapter 15. AIDS Activism: Remembering Resistance Versus Socially Organized Forgetting Gary Kinsman Conclusion Suzanne Hindmarch, Michael Orsini & Marilou Gagnon
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic
Book SynopsisBased on research by a leading geographer and specialist in diffusion theory, The Slow Plague discloses the geographic dimension of the AIDS pandemic. It provides a lucid description of the HIV, its origins, and the extent to which it has now permeated our lives. The author shows how the virus jumps from city to city, creating regional epicenters from which it spreads into surrounding areas. Four case studies at different geographic scales demonstrate the devastating effects of the disease. In Africa the situation is catastrophic, in Thailand it is rapidly becoming so. In the US there are over 300,000 people with AIDS and more than one million infected by the HIV. The relationships between poverty, drugs and HIV infection are brought out poignantly in a chapter about the Bronx. The author argues that a real understanding of AIDS has been hampered by conscious or unconscious beliefs that those affected are, and will continue to be, confined to specific minority groups and to parts of the Third World. He shows that such views have led to fundamental misconceptions about the pattern of the spread of the disease and about those who will be most at risk, now and in the immediate future.Trade Review"Stimulating, with sharp and pungent writing. The author's wide-ranging observations and speculations are full of energy and passion." Nature "The Slow Plague is a clearly written introduction to geographical understanding in HIV/Aids research." Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases "This fascinating book should attract a wide readership." Applied Geography "The book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper." Journal of Regional Science "This makes reading this alarming book a truly fascinating experience. I use the term 'alarming' because the book is about a catastrophic pandemic which, according to World Health Organization estimates, may claim 40 million lives world-wide by the year 2000." "Gould is exceptionally good at presenting the 'forest' and never letting the reader get lost in the 'trees'." "This book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper." Journal of Regional Science "The Slow Plague is the most interesting and provocative publication by an academic that I can recall reading. Without any mincing of words, Gould lifts the lid on HIV, on bumbling bureaucracies and narrow-minded investigators." Australian Geographical StudiesTable of ContentsList of maps and figures. Preface: Why a geographer writes about AIDS. Acknowledgements: Intellectual Antennae. Prologue: New Plagues for Old: The Horseman Rides Again. 1. The Killer: HIV and What it does. 2. The Origins of HIV: Closing an Open Question?. 3. The Thin Tendrils of Effects. 4. Sex on a Set: A Backcloth for Disaster. 5. Transmission Break: The Geography of the Condom. 6. How Things Spread: Hierarchical Jumps and Geographic Oozings. 7. Africa: A Continent in Catastrophe. 8. Thailand: How to Optimize an Epidemic. 9. America: Leaks in the System. 10. The Bronx: Poverty, Crack and HIV. 11. The Response: How Many Bureaucrats can Dance on the Head of a Pin?. 12. Time but no Space: the Failure of a Paradigm. 13. The Geography in Confidentiality. 14. Education and Planning: Predicting the Next Maps. 15. Herd Immunity: Riding the Coattails of the HIV. 16. Epilogue: Old Plagues for New. Changing worlds, changing genres: a bibliographic essay. Index.
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Temple University Press,U.S. AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the
Book SynopsisAIDS Alibis tackles the cultural landscape upon which AIDS, often accompanied by poverty, drug addiction, and crime, proliferates on a global scale. Stephanie Kane layers stories of individuals and events -- from Chicago to Belize City, to cyberspace -- to illustrate the paths of HIV infection and the effects of environment, government intervention, and social mores. Linking ordinary yet kindred lives in communities around the globe, Kane challenges the assumptions underlying the use of police and courts to solve health problems. The stories reveal the dynamics that determine how the policy decisions of white-collar health care professionals actually play out in real life. By focusing on life-changing social problems, the narratives highlight the contradictions between public health and criminal law. Look at how HIV has transformed our social consciousness, from intimate touch to institutional outreach. But, Kane argues, these changes are dwarfed by the United States's refusal to stop the war on drugs, in effect misdirecting resources and awareness. AIDS Alibis combines empirical and interpretive methods in a path-breaking attempt to recognize the extent to which coercive institutional practices are implicated in HIV transmission patterns. Kane shows how th e virus feeds on the politics of inequality and indifference, even as it exploits the human need for intimacy and release.Trade Review"AIDS Alibis represents contemporary engaged anthropology at its best. Drawing upon intensive research in Belize and Chicago...each ethnographically focused chapter is powerful in its own right. Jointly they make for an innovative, deeply reasoned, and powerful critique of our own understandings-social, legal, medical, ethical-and help us move towards consequential reconsiderations." -Don Brenneis, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz "This wise and affecting work reveals the limitations of current public health and criminal justice approaches to the AIDS pandemic. It also teaches us how to do fieldwork. The passionate rendering of 'stories that fall between the prescribed categories of analysis' tells us more about AIDS than any work I have yet encountered." -Shirley Lindenbaum, Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York "[This book] unveils the political unconscious of AIDS and reveals AIDS as a 'master signifier' circulating and mutating throughout different discursive formations. Kane juxtaposes media sources, conversations, dialogues, oral tales, statistics and official accounts. This innovative ethnography not only captures the elusive cultural meanings of AIDS, it is a first-rate example of how anthropologists can study 'fluid' phenomena that have no well-defined boundaries, phenomena that flow effortlessly across national, ethnic, and linguistic barriers, and in the process, transform themselves and their hosts." -Stephen A. Tyler, Herb S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, Rice University "[This book] unveils the political unconscious of AIDS and reveals AIDS as a 'master signifier' circulating and mutating throughout different discursive formations. Kane juxtaposes media sources, conversations, dialogues, oral tales, statistics and official accounts. This innovative ethnography not only captures the elusive cultural meanings of AIDS, it is a first-rate example of how anthropologists can study 'fluid' phenomena that have no well-defined boundaries, phenomena that flow effortlessly across national, ethnic, and linguistic barriers, and in the process, transform themselves and their hosts." -Stephen A. Tyler, Herb S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, Rice University "Stephanie Kane performs a timely and passionate ethnographic drama of misguided drug wars, risky bodily practices, panicky cultural logic, and the political unconscious of AIDS... a subtle, poetic and activist account of the ritual intersection between dangerous institutional forces and the everyday enactment of sex, labor, pleasure, and crime." -Stephen Pfohl, Sociology, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Part I. Work 2 Prostitution North 3 Folk Surveillance 4 Prostitution South Part II. Escape 5 Death Rite 6 Losing It 7 Illusion and Control 8 Easter in Livingston Part III. Crime 9 Desperate 10 The Positively Arrogant Mishap 11 Outtakes 12 Everything I Have Is Yours Notes Bibliography Index
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American Society of Health-System Pharmacists HIV Pharmacotherapy
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James Currey Breaking the Silence: South African
Book SynopsisExamines the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic through creative texts and the impact of these representations in determining which issues receive attention and how public understanding of the virus is shaped. South Africa is one of the countries in the world most affected by HIV/AIDS, and yet, until recently, the epidemic was barely visible in South African literature. Much can be gained from approaching the South African epidemic through creative texts such as novels, photographs, films, cartoons and murals because they produce and circulate meanings of HIV/AIDS and its various facets such as its 'origin', 'transmission routes' and 'physical manifestations'. Other aspects explored are the denial of HIV/AIDS, its stigmatisation, discriminatory practices, modes of disclosure, access to anti-retroviral medication, as well as the role of alternative treatment. Creative texts, which are open to different and possibly contradictory readings, can serve as a starting point to increase the cultural visibility of the virus and to challenge dominant ideas about the epidemic. The cultural constructions of HIV/AIDS should be carefully examined because the meanings are pervasive and have very 'real' consequences: they play a powerful role both in determining which issues receive attention and in shaping public understanding of the virus. Ellen Grünkemeier is a lecturer and researcher in the English Department at Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany. Her publications include two co-edited volumes on postcolonial literatures and cultures, Listening to Africa. Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures (2012), and Postcolonial Studies across the Disciplines (ASNEL Papers 19, forthcoming).Trade ReviewDelves into some of the most important sources of intellectual and public contestation regarding HIV. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Grünkemeier makes a strong case that South African literary genres as well as other creative modes have begun to break the culture of silence surrounding HIV/AIDS by representing that silence and the opaque communications surrounding the epidemic. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Setting the Agenda Mapping the Terrain: The South African HIV/AIDS Epidemic HIV/AIDS as a Taboo Topic: A Culture of Silence Imagery Myths Literary Genres Afterword: Meanings Matter
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS: Intellectual
Book SynopsisHIV/AIDS remains a major global health problem, despite the progress made in its prevention and treatment. Addressing this problem is not only a matter of more and better drugs, they need to be widely accessible and be affordable to the poor. This book makes, with a much welcomed interdisciplinary approach, an excellent contribution to understanding how the intellectual property regime can influence health policies and the lives of millions of people affected by the disease. The analysis provided by the various authors that contributed to this book will be of relevance not only to those working in the area of HIV/AIDS, but to those more broadly interested in public health governance and the role of intellectual property rights.'- Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina'This is an important, innovative and, at times, controversial collection. Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection will have appeal to those concerned with the global injustice in the context of HIV/AIDS. Investigating the legal, political and economic determinants of access to essential medicines, this is thought provoking collection which will resonate with many in both the academic and public policy community.'- Bryan Mercurio, The Chinese University of Hong KongThis important book brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines, including intellectual property, human rights, public health, and development studies, as well as activists to critically reflect on the global health governance regime.The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS explores the implications of high international intellectual property standards for access to essential medicines in developing countries. With a focus on HIV/AIDS governance, the volume provides a timely analysis of the international legal and political landscape, the relationship between human rights and intellectual property, and emerging issues in global health policy. It concludes with concrete strategies on how to improve access to HIV/AIDS medicines.This interdisciplinary, global, and up-to-date book will strongly appeal to academics in law, international relations, health policy and public policy, as well as students, policymakers and activists.Contributors include: F.M. Abbott, O. Aginam, T. Amin, L. Biron, A. Denburg, G.E. Evans, J. Harrington, J. Harrison, K. Lee, K.C. Shadlen, P.K. YuTrade Review‘The different chapters are presented in a coherent manner and are all characterized by a precise yet easy to understand language that makes the book an enjoyable and accessible read for researchers and students alike.’ -- Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property‘HIV/AIDS remains a major global health problem, despite the progress made in its prevention and treatment. Addressing this problem is not only a matter of more and better drugs, they need to be widely accessible and be affordable to the poor. This book makes, with a much welcomed interdisciplinary approach, an excellent contribution to understanding how the intellectual property regime can influence health policies and the lives of millions of people affected by the disease. The analysis provided by the various authors that contributed to this book will be of relevance not only to those working in the area of HIV/AIDS, but to those more broadly interested in public health governance and the role of intellectual property rights.’ -- Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina‘This is an important, innovative and, at times, controversial collection. Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection will have appeal to those concerned with the global injustice in the context of HIV/AIDS. Investigating the legal, political and economic determinants of access to essential medicines, this is a thought provoking collection which will resonate with many in both the academic and public policy community.’ -- Bryan Mercurio, The Chinese University of Hong KongTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Obijiofor Aginam and John Harrington 2. Communitarian Globalism and Disease: A Normative Orientation for Global Health Governance Obijiofor Aginam 3. Is AIDS Treatment Sustainable? Kenneth C. Shadlen 4. Access to Paediatric Medicines: The Global Political Economy of Drug Production and Supply for Children in the Developing World Avram Denburg and Kelley Lee 5. Trade Agreements, Intellectual Property and Access to Essential Medicines: What Future Role for the Right to Health? James Harrison 6. Re-visiting the Patents and Access to Medicines Dichotomy: An Evaluation of TRIPs Implementation and Public Health Safeguards in Developing Countries Tahir Amin 7. Seizure of Generic Pharmaceuticals in Transit Based on Allegations of Patent Infringement: A Threat to International Trade, Development and Public Welfare Frederick M. Abbott 8. Patent Licensing Strategies for the Research and Development of Pharmaceuticals in Developing Countries Gail E. Evans 9. Increasing Access through Incentives for Innovation: The Health Impact Fund Laura Biron 10. Building IPC4D to Promote Access to Essential Medicines Peter K. Yu 11. The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS and the Rugged Road Ahead: An Epilogue Peter K. Yu Appendices Index
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Wits University Press Contradicting Maternity: HIV-positive motherhood
Book SynopsisDrawing on rich and poignant interviews with mothers who have been diagnosed HIV-positive, ""Contradicting Maternity"" provides a rare perspective of motherhood from the mother's point of view. Whereas motherhood is often assumed to be a secondary identity compared to the central figure of the child, this book reverses the focus, arguing that maternal experience is important in its own right. The book explores the situation in which two very powerful identities, those of motherhood and of being HIV-positive, collide in the same moment. This collision takes place at the interface of complex, and often split, social and personal meanings concerning the sanctity of motherhood and the anxieties of HIV. The book offers an interpretation of how these personal and social meanings resonate with, and also fail to encompass, the experiences surrounding HIV-positive mothers. Photographs, academic literature and the accounts of real women are read with both a psychodynamic and discursive eye, highlighting the contradictions within maternal experience, as well as between maternal experience and the social imagination. ""Contradicting Maternity"" will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners in psychology, the social sciences and the health professions. The sensitive and readable analysis will also be of interest to mothers, whether HIV-positive or not.Table of ContentsFacing the HIV-positive Mother; the Joys of Motherhood; finding the HIV-positive mother; minding Baby's Body; mother's mind; mother's body; Thula Mama; contradicting maternity.
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Rutgers University Press Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and
Book SynopsisFinalist for the LGBTQ Nonfiction Award from Lambda Literary Queers and trans people in the 1980s and early ‘90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence. In revisiting these histories alongside ongoing queer and trans movements, this book uncovers how early HIV care-giving narratives actually shape how we continue to understand our genders and our disabilities. The queer and trans care-giving kinships that formed in response to HIV continue to inspire how we have sex and build chosen families in the present. In unearthing HIV community newsletters, media, zines, porn, literature, and even vampires, Forget Burial bridges early HIV care-giving activisms with contemporary disability movements. In refusing to bury the legacies of long-term survivors and of those we have lost, this book brings early HIV kinships together with ongoing movements for queer and trans body self-determination. Trade Review"Forget Burial is well worth reading. The most successful parts of this book take the reader inside the kitchens, bedrooms, prisons, art galleries, and hospital waiting rooms where people laughed, fought, loved, and sometimes died together. Fink makes a strong case that the early years of the HIV epidemic provide models for living joyously and communally despite the myriad ways capitalist institutions leave individuals to fend for ourselves. In the process of “unburying” the stories of historically marginalized people, Fink rightly and eloquently depicts disability as a generative force."— H-Net “What histories inter as past, Forget Burial bears forth to account for our present. Extending caregiving as a method, the book examines how early HIV archival narrations of trans and disability activisms resurface in later novels, film/video, and online networks. Whether displaying and eroticizing disabilities, or inventing safer sex, these negotiated HIV interdependencies transform state violence and biomedical stigma into kinships for ‘body self-determination’ that brandish mutual care and institutional access through our unfolding crises.”— Jih-Fei Cheng, co-editor of AIDS and the Distribution of Crises "Marty Fink’s Forget Burial is a vital, much needed contribution to HIV/AIDS scholarship. A wondrous cornucopia of theory, cultural artifacts – fiction, ‘zines, video, memoirs, painting, blogs and oral histories – analysis and archival uncovering, Fink’s work here is stunning when it makes connections to movements today. Forget Burial is both an act of superb scholarship and of love."— Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States for Young People "[A] creative and original study...this book offers historians both useful theoretical frameworks for thinking about HIV/AIDS, disability, and the role of mutual care as well as an exciting collection of sources to learn from."— Social History of MedicineTable of ContentsIntroduction: Taking Care Chapter 1: Silence = Undead: Vampires, HIV Kinship, and Communities of Care Chapter 2: Caregiving Collations and Gender Trash from Hell: Trans Women’s HIV Archives Chapter 3: Chosen Families: Rejection, Desire, and Archives of Care Chapter 4: The Gift of Dykes: Naming Desire in Rebecca Brown’s Narratives of Care Chapter 5: Queering Customs: Unburying Care in My Brother and ACE Conclusion: Forget Burial Acknowledgements Works Cited About the Author
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Aging with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: Health and
Book Synopsis With the development of effective antiretroviral therapies (ART) in the mid-1990s, HIV became a treatable although serious condition, and people who are adherent to HIV medications can attain normal or near-normal life expectancies. Because of the success of ART, people 50 and older now make up a majority of people with HIV in high-income countries and other places where ART is accessible. The aging of the HIV epidemic is a global trend that is also being observed in low- and middle-income countries, including countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where the greatest number of older people with HIV reside (3.7 million). While globally over half of older adults with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa, we have little information about the circumstances, needs, and resiliencies of this population, which limits our ability to craft effective policy and programmatic responses to aging with HIV in this region. At present, our understanding of HIV and aging is dominated by information from the U.S. and Western Europe, where the epidemiology of HIV and the infrastructure to provide social care are markedly different than in sub-Saharan Africa. Aging with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa addresses this gap in our knowledge by providing current research and perspectives on a range of health and psychosocial topics concerning these older adults from across this region. This volume provides a unique and timely overview of growing older with HIV in a sub-Saharan African context, covering such topics as epidemiology, health and functioning, and social support, as well as policy and program implications to support those growing older with HIV. There are very few published volumes that address HIV and aging, and this is the first book to consider HIV and aging in sub-Saharan Africa. Most publications in this area focus on HIV and aging in Uganda and South Africa. This volume broadens the scope with contributions from authors working in West Africa, Botswana, and Kenya. The range of topics covered here will be useful to professionals in a range of disciplines including psychology, epidemiology, gerontology, sociology, health care, public health, and social work.Table of Contents1. Foreword Mark Brennan-Ing 2. Epidemiology of HIV in the older African population F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé The HIV epidemic has been associated with a younger population, but this no longer holds true. Before effective treatment was available, AIDS mortality in sub-Saharan Africa was rising, peaking in the early 2000s. Then, with the introduction of antiretroviral therapy, life expectancy of people living with HIV increased. Their survival resulted in a higher prevalence of HIV in the over-50 population, creating a double burden of diseases, where HIV coexists with noncommunicable conditions. This double burden places extra stress on an already weak primary health system, especially in rural settings. Older people are also acquiring HIV. Prevention campaigns mainly target young people. People over 50 may therefore engage in high-risk sexual behavior that exposes them to infection, resulting in higher than expected HIV incidence. It is crucial to understand how older people perceive their risk of contracting HIV in order to institute effective preventive measures. 3. Multiple chronicities: Aging bodies, wellbeing, and chronic HIV in Eastern Africa Josien de Klerk The concept of multiple chronicities is used to argue that living with chronic HIV is not a singular experience. Building on ethnographic work in two rural settings (Tanzania) and an urban setting (Kenya), this chapter frames older people’s living with the virus as a social experience, blurring the distinction between being infected and being affected by loss and prolonged caregiving. In East African where HIV is endemic, older people’s personal and family histories with the virus shape the multiplicity of chronic HIV. The embodied experience of chronic HIV for older people is not only about how the virus behaves in the older body but also about the management of traumatic memories of caregiving and loss. HIV interplays with other chronic conditions, such as noncommunicable diseases and economic conditions. The presentation of a senior service model that acknowledges HIV as multiple chronicity exemplifies how models of HIV care could be developed in endemic contexts. 4. Comorbid conditions occurring in older adults on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Botswana: A retrospective cross-sectional cohort study of patient data Kabo Matlho Although people over the age of 50 account for more than 20% of those living with HIV in Botswana, they are largely underrepresented in HIV research and tailored interventions. Yet the interaction of aging and HIV may involve an increased risk for and exacerbation of chronic illnesses such as tuberculosis (TB); cardiovascular, kidney, and liver diseases; diabetes; hypertension; and cancers, as well as cognitive decline. These comorbidities complicate treatment and potentially increase mortality. This study gauged the existence and magnitude of comorbidities within the aging HIV cohort in Botswana using data from patients age 35 and older who were on first-line antiretroviral therapy. The data show a higher rate of specific comorbidities in adults 50 and older compared with those age 35-49. TB was particularly prevalent in older men, and hypertension was most prevalent among older women. Multimorbidity is pronounced among those aging with HIV in Botswana. Guidelines and policies need to adapt to the changing demographics and evolving challenges. 5. Expectations of health and illness in older age through the lens of the HIV-epidemic in Uganda Joseph Mugisha & Janet Seeley We focus on how the experience of living through the HIV epidemic shapes older people’s responses to (and fears about) chronic illness and health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the example of Uganda, we examine the ways in which the particular time people encountered HIV in their lives affects their understanding and perception of ill health and concerns about the risks HIV continues to pose. For example, older people who nursed their relatives through HIV-related illness prior to the availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) continue to see HIV as a death sentence; those living with HIV and on ART, schooled in the discipline of taking their tablets daily, doubt the seriousness of conditions for which there is a curative treatment. We draw on the work of Leventhal and colleagues (2016) and concepts from the “Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation” of how the response to information on an asymptomatic chronic condition may be shaped by people’s experience of other conditions, such as HIV. 6. Sexual behavior among older adults with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa Mark Brennan-Ing, Jennifer E. Kaufman, Kristen Porter, Catherine MacPhail, Janet Seeley, S. E. Karpiak, Francois Venter, Monica Kuteesa, Louise Geddes, & Joel Negin We have little information about sexual health among older adults with HIV (OAH) in sub-Saharan Africa, limiting our ability to mount effective secondary prevention efforts. This information is vital since adults remain sexually active well into old age and may be a vector for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. We used data from OAH from Uganda (N=101) and South Africa (N=108) and made comparisons on sexual health and risk behaviors. Substantial proportions of OAH in both countries were sexually active, but there were significant differences in HIV disclosure and condom use. Findings suggest that secondary HIV prevention for OAH requires greater attention. Differences in sexual activity and sexual risk among OAH in South Africa and Uganda point to cultural and social influences, warranting caution against broad generalizations about OAH in sub-Saharan Africa. There is a need for tailored policy and programmatic solutions to address sexual health. 7. “Ask those who are ahead about a buffalo”: Well-being of grandparents with HIV in Uganda and South Africa Kristen Porter, Catherine MacPhail, Janet Seeley, S. E. Karpiak, Francois Venter, Monica Kuteesa, Louise Geddes, Joel Negin, & Mark Brennan-Ing Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the region most profoundly affected by HIV/AIDS in the world. The United Nations (April 2019) reported that of 98 countries, it is most common for older adults to be living with younger children in countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Older sub-Saharan African adults are frequently involved in grandchild care, but little is known on how this impacts the grandparents’ well-being. While more is known about grandparents caring for HIV-positive grandchildren (i.e., “AIDS orphans”), the impact of caring for grandchildren on HIV-positive grandparents is nascent. This chapter draws upon a cross-sectional study of older grandparents living with HIV in Uganda and South Africa (N=209). Using a stress process framework, the role of potential stress factors (e.g., cohabitating with grandchild, comorbidities, health-related quality of life) on psychological well-being is examined. 8. Mental health in older people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: A review and future research recommendations Charlotte Bernard & Nathalie de Rekeneire In sub-Saharan Africa, as elsewhere, increasing use of HIV medical services and antiretroviral therapy (ART) mean that HIV is now considered a chronic disease. With aging, people living with HIV experience not only physiological complications but also neuropsychological and social issues. Two mental health disorders are mainly observed in this population: HIV associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) and depression. The prevalence of HAND remains high despite ART use, and the aging process may exacerbate it. Both HAND and depression negatively affect ART adherence, HIV outcomes, and quality of life. These public health issues could cause significant burden on healthcare systems and human resources, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, the world region least prepared to deal with HIV. This chapter presents a review of the current knowledge about neurocognitive impairment and depression in older people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. We then propose recommendations for future research. 9. ‘The support keeps me strong’: Social support of older people living with HIV in South Africa Catherine MacPhail, Megan Mattingly, Victor Minichiello, Francois Venter, Stephen Karpiak, & Mark Brennan-Ing Much is known of the experience of older South Africans as caregivers and resources for younger generations affected by HIV, but less is known of social support experienced by those aging with HIV. This chapter presents data from qualitative interviews conducted with 15 South Africans over 50 years of age living with HIV in inner-city Johannesburg. Contrary to reports of stigma and lack of support in developed countries, the majority experienced amplified social and practical support within their families, if not outside of them, particularly from adult children. Women were additionally supported by siblings and men particularly by their spouses. Practical and physical support in daily tasks and other activities specifically associated with HIV was more commonly mentioned than emotional support. At the same time, participants noted that their own caregiving roles did not diminish. In particular, they continued to financially support extended family members, and women remained a significant source of domestic labor. 10. A comparison of social support resources among older adults with HIV in Uganda and South Africa Mark Brennan-Ing, Jennifer E. Kaufman, Kristen Porter, Catherine MacPhail, Janet Seeley, S. E. Karpiak, Francois Venter, Monica Kuteesa, Louise Geddes, & Joel Negin Research on older adults with HIV (OAH) finds they have high rates of comorbid conditions in addition to HIV, suggesting they will require increasing assistance from their informal social networks. But data are scarce on social network dynamics of OAH in sub-Saharan Africa. To address this gap, we examined social support resources among OAH from Uganda (N=101) and South Africa (N=108). There are significant differences between OAH in these two countries in the composition of their social networks, support provided, and perceptions of social support sufficiency. Despite high levels of informal support in both countries, sizable proportions felt that support from family and friends was insufficient to meet their needs. Given the significant differences between countries, research is needed to better understand the cultural/societal factors affecting social care among older adults with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Further, policy and program initiatives to meet unmet support needs are sorely needed. 11. Reprogramming HIV prevention and service provision for older adults Jepchirchir Kiplagat People age 50 and older represent 12% of people living with HIV (PLWH) in western Kenya, and the number is expected to rise. The situation calls for tailoring approaches to both prevention and care. To achieve the country’s goal of 80% of PLWH knowing their status, there is an urgent need to include older adults in prevention messaging and testing services. Door-to-door HIV testing and counselling would decrease travel and transportation barriers for older adults. In terms of care, it is challenging to manage HIV in addition to comorbid conditions that are common among older adults. When services are fragmented, seeking care for multiple conditions is expensive and makes adherence more difficult. In addition, both neurocognitive disorders and visual impairment affect medication adherence among older people – particularly those living alone. Meeting the needs of older adults will require transforming healthcare facilities to integrate services and sharing information between providers. 12. Policy innovations for an aging HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan AfricaRuth Finkelstein The population of older adults with HIV is approaching four million and will continue to grow in the foreseeable future. While the aging of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere represents a success story for antiretroviral therapy, this success also brings challenges, as these older adults have increasing needs for health and social care due to multimorbidity resulting from HIV and age-related chronic conditions. The aging of people with HIV in this region is further complicated by the lack of financial, healthcare, and community-based resources that support healthy aging, like those available in high-income countries. In this chapter, we outline several policy initiatives needed to support older adults with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa to meet the challenges of this aging epidemic.
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United Nations World AIDS Day Report 2023: Let Communities Lead
Book SynopsisThis report shows how community-led interventions are central to achieving the end of AIDS and to sustaining the gains into the future. People living with or affected by HIV have driven progress in the HIV response--reaching people who have not been reached; connecting people with the services they need; pioneering innovations; holding providers, governments, international organizations and donors to account; and spearheading inspirational movements for health, dignity and human rights for all. They are the trusted voices. Communities understand what is most needed, what works, and what needs to change. Communities have not waited to be handed their leadership roles -- they have taken the roles on themselves and held fast in their insistence on doing so. They have applied their skills and determination to help tackle other pandemics and health crises too, including COVID-19, Ebola and mpox. Letting communities lead builds healthier and stronger societies. This report shines a light on the underreported story of the everyday heroes of the HIV response. But it is much more than a celebration of the achievements of communities. It is an urgent call to action for governments and international partners to enable and support communities in their leadership roles.
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United Nations World AIDS day report 2021: unequal, unprepared,
Book SynopsisEvery year on the occasion of World AIDS Day, 1 December, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) releases a report on pressing issues facing the global response to the AIDS pandemic. As the AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics collide, the 2021 World AIDS Day report warns that the colossal new challenges created by COVID-19 threaten the gains made against AIDS thus far. There have been substantial setbacks, particularly during the first six months of the crisis. People living with HIV are also at elevated risk of COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality. In many places, the upheaval caused by COVID-19 has summoned the inventiveness and resilience that have become hallmarks of the HIV response. HIV programmes that are well-resourced, willing to adapt, and anchored in strong community involvement have tended to cope the best. The Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026 and the UN General Assembly's 2021 Political Declaration on Ending AIDS call on countries to address inequalities and close gaps. With no time to spare, those agreed actions are not being made at the required speed and scale. What is at stake is bigger than AIDS. During negotiations on a global framework for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, the hard-won successes and bitter failures from the response to AIDS have experiences to share. Those lessons must be quickly learned and applied to end AIDS within the next decade, to swiftly defeat COVID-19, and to proactively confront the pandemics of tomorrow
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Oxford University Press Virus Hunt The search for the origin of HIVAIDs
Book SynopsisThe hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural south east Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it was able to spread so widely. From hospital intensive care wards to research laboratories and the African rain forests, this is the wide-ranging story of a killer virus and a tale of scientific endeavour.Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction: a new disease ; 1. The puzzle of HIV-1 ; 2. Tracing HIV to its roots ; 3. The primate connection ; 4. From rain forest to research laboratory ; 5. Timing SIV cpz's jump to humans ; 6. A vital first step for HIV-1 group M ; 7. Beginning the epic journey ; 8. HIV-1 group M meets the challenge ; 9. Past, present, and future pandemics ; References ; Further reading ; Glossary
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ending AIDS in the Age of Biopharmaceuticals The Individual the State and the Politics of Prevention Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Living in the Shadows of Chinas HIVAIDS Epidemics Sex Drugs and Bad Blood Routledge Contemporary China Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cutaneous Manifestations of HIV Disease
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Viruses and Society
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sexual Behaviour and HIVAIDS in Europe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sexual Behaviour and HIVAIDS in Europe
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Taylor & Francis Rethinking MSM Trans and other Categories in HIV Prevention
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Taylor & Francis Culture Society and Sexuality
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Taylor & Francis Culture Society and Sexuality
Book SynopsisThis new and revised edition of Culture, Society and Sexuality brings together and makes accessible a broad and international selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships, and emerging discourses around sexual and reproductive rights. Clearly structured and presented, the book makes an extremely useful reference for students and researchers. Section one focuses on the social and cultural construction of sexuality as an emerging field of inquiry over the course of recent decades, and examines some of the most important theoretical insights and areas of investigation that have emerged as this field has developed. Section two links research on the construction of sexuality to a growing body of work on gender and sexuality in relation to a wide range of practical issues and contemporary social policy debates. It is an essential reader not only for students and researchers in tTable of Contents1. Introduction Section 1: Culture, Society and Sexuality Part 1: Conceptual Frameworks 2. Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History 3. Sexual Scripts 4. Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment Part 2: Gender and Power 5. Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis 6. ‘Gender’ for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word 7. ‘That We Should All Turn Queer?’: Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua Part 3: From Gender to Sexuality 8. Discourse, Desire and Sexual Deviance: Some Problems in a History of Homosexuality 9. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality 10. ‘The Unclean Motion of the Generative Parts’: Frameworks in Western Thought on Sexuality Part 4: Sexual Identities/Sexual Communities 11. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence 12. The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role 13. Capitalism and Gay Identity Section 2: Sexual Meanings, Health, and Rights Part 5: Gender, Power and Rights 14. Masculinities and Globalization 15. Violence, Sexuality, and Women’s Lives 16. Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective Part 6: Sexual Categories and Classification 17. HIV, Heroin and Heterosexual Relations 18. An Explosion of Thai Identities: Global Queering and Re-Imaging Queer Theory 19. Bhai-behen, True Love, Time Pass: Friendships and Sexual Partnerships among Youth in an Indian Metropolis Part 7: Sexual Negotiations and Transactions 20. Masculinity and Urban Men: Perceived Scripts for Courtship, Romantic, and Sexual Interactions with Women 21. Some Traditional Methods are More Modern than Others: Rhythm, Withdrawal and the Changing Meanings of Sexual Intimacy in Mexican Companionate Marriage 22. Mobility, Sexual Networks and Exchange among Bodabodamen in Southwest Uganda Part 8: Contemporary and Future Challenges 23. Gendered Scripts and the Sexual Scene: Promoting Sexual Subjects among Brazilian Teenagers 24. HIV and AIDS-related Stigma and Discrimination: A Conceptual Framework and Implications for Action 25. Bracketing Sexuality: Human Rights and Sexual Orientation – A Decade of Development and Denial at the UN
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Institutions and the HIVAIDS Epidemic Responding to an International Crisis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd When AIDS Began San Francisco and the Making of an Epidemic
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Taylor & Francis Ltd When Aids Began San Francisco and the Making of an Epidemic
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Taylor & Francis Politics Online Blogs Chatrooms and Discussion Groups in American Democracy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires
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Taylor & Francis Sex Gay Men and AIDS
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Taylor & Francis Sexuality Politics and AIDS in Brazil
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sexuality Politics and AIDS in Brazil
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Infecting the Treatment Being an HIVPositive Analyst
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Guide to AIDS Pocket Guides to Biomedical
Book SynopsisThe Pocket Guide to AIDS is succinct review of HIV/AIDS from a human-interest perspective. Chapters focus on some of the common patterns and prevention of HIV transmission and debunks misconceptions about HIV and AIDS. Brief descriptions the human immune system and epidemiology of HIV are included. The cultural component of disease, treatment and living with AIDS is central to much of this Pocket Guide intended to synthesize, explain and de-mystify HIV and AIDS.Table of ContentsHIV/AIDS is Easy to Prevent. A Preventable Disease. Clean Needles in the Developing World. Mosquitos Do Not Spread HIV. Small Personal Choices and Big Results. The Root of the Problem. A Tale of Incomplete Hopes. To Fund or Not to Fund? That is Not the Whole Question. The Human Immune System: Multi-level Protection. Strain 1, Group M and the Epidemiology of HIV. What To Do and Not To Do? As Simple as ABC or ABCC? Alcohol and AIDS. HIV in the Age of the Desaperacidas. The Military-AIDS Complex: AIDS and International Security. Counting the Costs: More Deadly Than Military Conflict. "This is Not Your Land. Go Away AIDS": Music and Orphans. Cultural Differences and AIDS Awareness. AIDS and the Hispanic Community. Culture and AIDS Transmission: The Example of India. Indian Traditions, Women and HIV. Confession and Complaint: Bad, Worse and Worst. The Language of AIDS. These Died of AIDS. Etcetera: These are the Houses That AIDS Built. AIDS Personified.
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Cambridge University Press Learning from HIV and AIDS 15 Biosocial Society Symposium Series Series Number 15
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Cambridge University Press Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster
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Cambridge University Press The Uncounted
Book SynopsisIn the global race to reach the end of AIDS, why is the world slipping off track? The answer has to do with stigma, money, and data. Global funding for AIDS response is declining. Tough choices must be made: some people will win and some will lose. Global aid agencies and governments use health data to make these choices. While aid agencies prioritize a shrinking list of countries, many governments deny that sex workers, men who have sex with men, drug users, and transgender people exist. Since no data is gathered about their needs, life-saving services are not funded, and the lack of data reinforces the denial. The Uncounted cracks open this and other data paradoxes through interviews with global health leaders and activists, ethnographic research, analysis of gaps in mathematical models, and the author''s experience as an activist and senior official. It shows what is counted, what is not, and why empowering communities to gather their own data could be key to ending AIDS.Trade Review'Davis vividly shows that not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. As an anthropologist, a human rights activist and a former Global Fund official, Davis is an insider and an outsider, drawing a rich, nuanced and compelling portrait of the HIV response today.' Joseph Amon, Director of Global Health, Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health'In The Uncounted, Davis has successfully synthesized the complex decisions guiding bilateral and multilateral funding agencies in the HIV response. Given her own experience and that the book is informed by systematic reviews and key informant interviews, it is accurate while managing to provide a humanized narrative to international development.' Stefan Baral, Director of the Key Populations Program at the Center for Public Health and Human Rights'[The Uncounted] pushes those in global health governance to reflect on how data are selected and examined … offering not a neatly packaged set of solutions, but instead an inclusive opportunity to contest and remake data to be people-centered.' Hanna Huffstetler and Benjamin Mason Meier, Global Public Health'Davis provides a highly readable account of not only what these messy realities look like but, crucially, how tools of data governance work.' Sophie Harman, International Affairs'… must-read book for those academics and activists willing to get their head around the system of AIDS knowledge as well as the social and semantic spaces and new sets of relations that it sets in motion.' Julie Billaud, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review'The book is wide in scope and deep in breadth … The Uncounted offers an important window into AIDS governance, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth that shape our contemporary world. It should become a must-read book for those academics and activists willing to get their head around the system of AIDS knowledge as well as the social and semantic spaces and new sets of relations that it sets in motion.' Julie Billaud, PoLAR OnlineTable of Contents1. Contested indicators; 2. The uncounted: Key populations; 3. "Something more than data”; 4. Cost-effectiveness and human rights; 5. Modeling the end of AIDS; 6. Sustainability, transition and crisis; 7. Listening to women; 8. "So many hurdles just to leave the house"; 9. The Panopticon and the Potemkin; 10. Data from the ground up.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Cured
Book Synopsis“Nathalia Holt presents a thorough account of the research that provides scientists with hope that a cure will one day be achievable... and her empathy shines through in her prose. This is as important a social history as it is a medical document.”—The Daily Beast Two patients—each known in medical history as the Berlin Patient—were cured of the HIV virus. The two patients’ disparate cures came twelve years apart, but Nathalia Holt, an award-winning scientist at the forefront of HIV research, connects the molecular dots of these cases for the first time. Scientists are known to maintain a professional distance from those they study, but sometimes scientists are not just investigators, they are caregivers, too. Cured illustrates that even in the era of high-tech and big pharma, the way doctors and patients communicate remains a critical ingredient in the advance of this science. Holt offers a kind of hope that the thir
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