Global HIV/AIDS politics, policy and activism : persistent challenges and emerging issues / / Raymond A. Smith, editor

• Pubblicazione: Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , 2013; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1246 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.19697/92
• Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease); HIV infections; Public health - International cooperation
• Altri autori: SmithRaymond A. <1967->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Volume 1 Politics and Government; Contents; Introduction: Politics, Policy, and Activism in the Fourth Decade of AIDS; PART 1 THE GLOBAL AND TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS OF HIV PREVENTION AND TREATMENT; 1. The Troubled Path to HIV/AIDS Universal Treatment Access: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory?; 2. Sustainability in the Post-PEPFAR Period: Examples from Botswana, Ethiopia, and South Africa; 3. The New Deal for the Global AIDS Response: Evidence and Human Rights-Based Legal Environments: The Global Commission on HIV and the Law ; 4. The Politics of Global Health Diplomacy: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Lessons from the United States, Southeast Asia, and Latin America5. The ""Dirty Work"" of Public Health: Politics, Policy, Prejudice, and Human Rights in a Time of HIV/AIDS; 6. The Subtle Politics of AIDS: Values, Bias, and Persistent Errors in HIV Prevention; PART 2 COUNTRY- AND REGIONAL-LEVEL POLITICS OF HIV PREVENTION AND TREATMENT; 7. The HIV Response in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: An Epidemic and Its Dilemmas ; 8. The Diagonal Approach: Programming to Combat HIV While Strengthening Primary Health Care Systems in Africa9. Funding HIV Prevention, Treatment, and Care in the United States: The Limits of Politics in Responding to a Deadly Epidemic; 10. A National HIV Prevention Strategy for the United States: Troubling Echoes of Earlier VD Control Programs; 11. Understanding Brazil's Strategic Response to HIV/AIDS: History, Politics, and International Relations; 12. More Are Testing Positive-but is Everything Negative? Russia and the HIV Epidemic ; 13. HIV Prevention in the West African Context: Barriers and Facilitators in Ghana14. A People-Centered Approach to the Links among HIV/AIDS, Conflicts, and Security in Colombia; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; About the Editors and Contributors; Volume 2 Policy and Policymaking; Contents; Introduction: Politics, Policy, and Activism in the Fourth Decade of AIDS; PART 1 GLOBAL AND TRANSNATIONAL POLICY DEBATES OVER HIV PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ; 1. The Shifting Sands of Intellectual Property Law and Policy: Implications for the Future of HIV Treatment and Public Health2. Medical Circumcision and the Politics of No Alternative: Why the Public Health Imperative Scored a Victory against HIV/AIDS; 3. Count Us In: The Need for More Comprehensive Global Data on HIV/AIDS Prevention, Testing, and Knowledge among LGBT Populations; 4. Promoting HIV Prevention and Research with Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) through U.S. Foreign Policy; 5. HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma as the Root of HIV Criminalization and Bias against Sex Workers ; PART 2 COUNTRY- AND REGIONAL-LEVEL POLICY DEBATES OVER HIV PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
• Sommario/riassunto: The HIV/AIDS epidemic is at a critical turning point. Compelling new findings herald the potential to eventually grind the epidemic to a halt through a combination of expanded treatment coverage and new biomedical approaches to prevention. At the same tim
• Titolo autorizzato: Global HIV
• ISBN: 979-84-00-65752-8; 979-82-16-09040-3; 0-313-39946-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823152503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II