Author: Shawn C. Smallman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146960678X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Of the more than 40 million people around the world currently living with HIV/AIDS, two million live in Latin America and the Caribbean. In an engaging chronicle illuminated by his travels in the region, Shawn Smallman shows how the varying histories and cultures of the nations of Latin America have influenced the course of the pandemic. He demonstrates that a disease spread in an intimate manner is profoundly shaped by impersonal forces. In Latin America, Smallman explains, the AIDS pandemic has fractured into a series of subepidemics, driven by different factors in each country. Examining cultural issues and public policies at the country, regional, and global levels, he discusses why HIV has had such a heavy impact on Honduras, for instance, while leaving the neighboring state of Nicaragua relatively untouched, and why Latin America as a whole has kept infection rates lower than other global regions, such as Africa and Asia. Smallman draws on the most recent scientific research as well as his own interviews with AIDS educators, gay leaders, drug traffickers, crack addicts, transvestites, and doctors in Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico. Highlighting the realities of gender, race, sexuality, poverty, politics, and international relations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Smallman brings a fresh perspective to understanding the cultures of the region as well as the global AIDS crisis.
The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America
HIV/AIDS in Latin American Countries
Author: Anabela Garcia-Abreu
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821353646
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Annotation The report evaluates current national surveillance capacity and assesses national responses of the health sector to the epidemic on a country-by-country basis. Importantly, the report identifies key areas in which specific interventions are urgently needed and the challenges ahead.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821353646
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Annotation The report evaluates current national surveillance capacity and assesses national responses of the health sector to the epidemic on a country-by-country basis. Importantly, the report identifies key areas in which specific interventions are urgently needed and the challenges ahead.
AIDS in Latin America
Author: Tim Frasca
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781403969446
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The first book on the shocking reality of AIDS in Latin America.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781403969446
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The first book on the shocking reality of AIDS in Latin America.
HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean
The AIDS Pandemic
Author: Lawrence O. Gostin
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080787583X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population--infected and uninfected--by influencing our social norms, our economy, and our country's role as a world leader. Now in the third decade of this pandemic, the nation and the world still fail to respond to the needs of persons living with HIV/AIDS and continue to tolerate injustice in their treatment, Gostin argues. AIDS, both in the United States and globally, deeply affects poor and marginalized populations, and many U.S. policies are based on conservative moral values rather than public health and social justice concerns. Gostin tackles the hard social, legal, political, and ethical issues of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: privacy and discrimination, travel and immigration, clinical trials and drug pricing, exclusion of HIV-infected health care workers, testing and treatment of pregnant women and infants, and needle-exchange programs. This book provides an inside account of AIDS policy debates together with incisive commentary. It is indispensable reading for advocates, scholars, health professionals, lawyers, and the concerned public.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080787583X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population--infected and uninfected--by influencing our social norms, our economy, and our country's role as a world leader. Now in the third decade of this pandemic, the nation and the world still fail to respond to the needs of persons living with HIV/AIDS and continue to tolerate injustice in their treatment, Gostin argues. AIDS, both in the United States and globally, deeply affects poor and marginalized populations, and many U.S. policies are based on conservative moral values rather than public health and social justice concerns. Gostin tackles the hard social, legal, political, and ethical issues of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: privacy and discrimination, travel and immigration, clinical trials and drug pricing, exclusion of HIV-infected health care workers, testing and treatment of pregnant women and infants, and needle-exchange programs. This book provides an inside account of AIDS policy debates together with incisive commentary. It is indispensable reading for advocates, scholars, health professionals, lawyers, and the concerned public.
Current and Future Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
HIV/AIDS in Latin American Countries
HIV/AIDS
Author: Jon Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Viral Voyages
Author: L. Meruane
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137394994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137394994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.
Health Systems And The Challenge Of Communicable Diseases: Experiences From Europe And Latin America
Author: Coker, Richard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 033523366X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This fascinating book looks at two regions where rapid economic changes means that many health systems must undergo organisational transition and find ways of adapting to an ever changing context.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 033523366X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This fascinating book looks at two regions where rapid economic changes means that many health systems must undergo organisational transition and find ways of adapting to an ever changing context.