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Impact on Science and Society
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Edited By
Kenneth Mayer, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
H.F. Pizer, Health Care Strategies, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
Description
The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS has, and continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines
it touches. Novel perspectives are provided by a unique panel of internationally recognised experts who cover the unprecedented impact
onf AIDS on culture, demographics and politics around the world, including how it affected the worlds' economy, health sciences, epidemiology
and public health. This important far- reaching analysis uses the lessons learned from a wide array of disciplines to help us understand
the current status and evolution of the pandemic, as it continues to evolve.
Audience
Researchers and clinical researchers in epidemiology, virology and immunology; Those in the Pubic Health field and Behavioral Sciences; Medical educators and students
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Virology
Immunology in the Era of HIV/AIDS
Quantitative Science
The Public Health Response to HIV/AIDS: What
have we learned?
AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention and Control
HIV Treatment Meets Prevention: Antiretroviral Therapy
as Prophylaxis
Challenges in Developing HIV Vaccines
Microbicides
AIDS Behavioural Prevention: Unprecedented Progress and Emerging Challenges
The Evolution of Comprehensive AIDS Clinical Care
The Ever-Changing Face of AIDS: Implications for Patient Care
Economics
Expanding
Global Access to ARVs: The Challenges of Prices and Patents
The African Experience
Asia: Health Meets Human Rights
Global Activism
How HIV/AIDS Changed Gay Life in America: And What Others Can Learn from Our Experience
Drug Use
Management of HIV/AIDS in Correctional
Settings
Medical Ethics and the Law
Index
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Hardbound, 520 pages, publication date: DEC-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-465271-2
ISBN-10: 0-12-465271-9
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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