Tag: HIVAIDS

Free Download David Celentano, Chris Beyrer, "Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Low and Middle Income Countries: Epidemiology, Prevention and Care"
English | 2008 | pages: 753 | ISBN: 0387727108, 1441924884 | PDF | 18,3 mb
It has now been 25 years since the apocryphal report in the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report dated June 5, 1981 entitled, "Pneumocystis Pneumonia – Los Angeles", which announced what was to become HIV/AIDS. HIV has now affected virtually all countries that have looked for it and has had a devastating impact on the public health and medical care infrastructure around the world. HIV/AIDS has also disproportionately affected nations with the least capacity to confront it, especially the developing world nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the emerging republics of Eastern and Central Asia. The pandemic, unlike any other disease of our time, has had profound impacts on the practice of public health itself: bringing affected communities into decision making; demanding North-South partnerships and collaborations; and changing the basic conduct of clinical and prevention trials research. While much has been written in scholarly publications for medical, epidemiologic and disease control specialists, there is no comprehensive review of the public health impact and response to HIV/AIDS in the developing world.

Free Download Valerie Stone, Bisola Ojikutu, "HIV/AIDS in U.S. Communities of Color"
English | 2009 | pages: 309 | ISBN: 1441931074, 0387981519 | PDF | 2,9 mb
More people in communities of color are contracting, living with, and being treated for HIV/AIDS than ever before. In 2005, 71% of new AIDS cases were diagnosed in people of color. The rate of HIV infection in the African-American community alone has increased from 25% of total cases diagnosed in 1985 to 50% in 2005. Latinos similarly comprise a disproportionate segment of the AIDS epidemic: though they make up only 14% of the U.S. population, 20% of AIDS cases diagnosed in 2004 were Latino/a.

Free Download Donna Hubbard McCree PhD MPH RPh, "African Americans and HIV/AIDS: Understanding and Addressing the Epidemic"
English | 2010 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1489996729, 0387783202 | PDF | 3,9 mb
Among U. S. racial and ethnic minority populations, African American communities are the most disproportionately impacted and affected by HIV/AIDS (CDC, 2009; CDC, 2008). The chapters in this volume seek to explore factors that contribute to this disparity as well as methods for intervening and positively impacting the e- demic in the U. S. The book is divided into two sections. The first section includes chapters that explore specific contextual and structural factors related to HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention in African Americans. The second section is composed of chapters that address the latest in intervention strategies, including best-evidence and promising-evidence based behavioral interventions, program evaluation, cost effectiveness analyses and HIV testing and counseling. As background for the book, the Introduction provides a summary of the context and importance of other infectious disease rates, (i. e. , sexually transmitted diseases [STDs] and tubercu- sis), to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in African Americans and a brief introductory discussion on the major contextual factors related to the acquisition and transmission of STDs/HIV. Contextual Chapters Johnson & Dean author the first chapter in this section, which discusses the history and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among African Americans. Specifically, this ch- ter provides a definition for and description of the US surveillance systems used to track HIV/AIDS and presents data on HIV or AIDS cases diagnosed between 2002 and 2006 and reported to CDC as of June 30, 2007.

Free Download Pamela Leong, "Religion, Flesh, and Blood: The Convergence of HIV/AIDS, Black Sexual Expression, and Therapeutic Religion"
English | ISBN: 0739194429 | 2015 | 168 pages | PDF | 839 KB

Free Download Jerry D. Durham PhD RN FAAN, Felissa R. Lashley PhD RN FABMGG, "The Person with HIV/AIDS: Nursing Perspectives"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0826121373 | PDF | pages: 663 | 3.0 mb
This is an excellent reference for those caring for clients with HIV/AIDS. I strongly recommend this book."

Free Download Gustavo Subero, "Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture: Cuerpos suiSIDAs "
English | ISBN: 1472425952 | 2014 | 168 pages | EPUB | 764 KB
Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenology, to understand the ways in which HIV positive individuals make sense of their own lives, and of the ways in which the rest of society sees them. Drawing on a variety of cultural texts from cinema, television, photography and literature, the author considers the manner in which contemporary cultural forms have shaped a body of public opinion in response to the social and cultural impact of HIV/AIDS, re-interpreting the condition in the light of advances in treatment. With attention to both the temporality and spatiality of production, this book examines whether heterosexual and homosexual, and masculine and feminine bodies are narrativised in the same manner, considering the question of whether representations foster discrimination of any kind. The book also asks whether representations across Latin America are homogenous or varied according to national, social or cultural context, and explores the commonalities between the representations of HIV/AIDS in Hispano-America and the Caribbean and other global narratives. A detailed study of the various representations of HIV/AIDS and the construction of public opinion, this book will appeal to scholars of cultural, media and film studies, the sociology of health, the body and illness, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Free Download War on Drugs, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights By Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch; Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
2004 | 331 Pages | ISBN: 0972054170 | PDF | 3 MB
This work aims to position drug policies in another context – the context of human rights. Articles examine the rights of drug users, with special attention to the right to adequate medical care.