Cynthia Pope, Renee T White, Robert Malow

Hiv/Aids: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention

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Produktbeschreibung

HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention provides a comprehensive overview of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. The unique anthology addresses cutting-edge issues in HIV/AIDS research, policymaking, and advocacy. Key features include: A- Nine original essays from leading scholars in public health, epidemiology, and social and behavioral sciences A- Comprehensive information for individuals with varying degrees of knowledge, particularly regarding methodological and theoretical perspectives A- A look into the future progression of HIV transmission and scholarly research HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention is will serve as a precious resource as a textbook and reference for the university classroom, libraries, and researchers

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 175mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9780415953832
• ISBN-10: 0415953839
• Artikelnr.: 25498246

Autorenporträt

Cynthia Pope is Associate Professor of Geography at Central Connecticut State University and Lecturer in Global Health at Yale University. Her work deals with the intersections of geopolitics, gender, and HIV risk in the developing world, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean. Renee T. White is Professor of Sociology and co-director of Black Studies at Fairfield University. She is co-editor of the Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children and Youth. Her research focuses on health disparities, reproductive and AIDS-related social policy, urban inequalities and social justice. Robert Malow is a Professor of Public Health at Florida International University and is associated editor of AIDS Education and Prevention. He has authored over 150 scientific publications and has led over a dozen National Institutes of Health-funded projects in the area of HIV and substance abuse.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Peter Aggleton and Richard Parker
"Globalization
Vulnerability
and the response to HIV and AIDS." Introduction 1. Cynthia Pope
Renée T. White
and Robert Malow
"Global Convergences: Emerging Issues in HIV Risk
Prevention
and Treatment" Section 1: Evolving Theories of Harm Reduction and HIV risk 2. Framing Essay: Scott Burris
"Addressing the "Risk Environment" for Injection Drug Users: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cop." 3. Megan Comfort
"HIV/AIDS and the United States's Correctional Institutions: A Looming Public-Health Disaster." 4. Michael Duke
JiangHong Li
and Merrill Singer. "Drug use
Syringe Sharing and HIV Risk in the People's Republic of China" 5. Scott Clair
Merrill Singer
Francisco I. Bastos
Monica Malta
Claudia Santelices
and N. Ebertoni. "The Role of Drug Users in the Brazilian HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Patterns
Perceptions and Prevention." Section 2: Gender
Sexuality and HIV Risk 6. Framing Essay: Geeta Rao Gupta and Ellen Weiss
"Gender and HIV: Reflecting Back
Moving Forward" 7. Rhonda Rosenberg and Robert Malow
"The Hard Science of Hard Risks in Women's HIV Prevention: Making Biology Part of the Context." 8. Treena Orchard
John O'Neil
James Blanchard
and Stephen Moses
"HIV/AIDS Prevention programming with 'traditional' sex workers in rural India: challenges for the empowerment approach in community-sanctioned sex work communities." 9. Olena Hankivsky
"The Challenge of HIV/AIDS in Ukraine" 10. Laëtitia Atlani-Duault
"Homosexual Repression and AIDS in Post-soviet Central Asia" 11. Hansjörg Dilger
"African Sexualities Revisited: Gender
Social Relations and Culture in the Context of Globalization and AIDS in Tanzania." 12. Taigy Thomas
Lianne Urada
Donald Morisky
and Robert Malow
"Best Practice Example of the Philippines: A Low-Level Prevalence Country and the Male "Bridge" Population" Section 3: Critical Intersections between Biomedicine
Behavior
and HIV 13. Framing Essay: Sande Gracia Jones
"Looking Inside the Pill Bottle: The Evolution of HIV Antiretroviral Combination Drug Therapy." 14. Laurie Sylla and Clair Kaplan
"Microbicides: Revolutionizing HIV Prevention?" 15. Durvasula
Ramani
Lisa R. Norman
and Robert Malow. "Current Perspectives on the Neuropsychology of HIV" 16. Jane Simoni
K. Rivet Amico
Cynthia Pearson
and Robert Malow
"Overview of Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapies" 17. Jannette Berkley-Patton
"Adherence Masters: Reaching for Perfection in ART Adherence" Section 4: Explorations in New Forms of Intervention and Prevention 18. Framing Essay: Ralph J. DiClemente
Colleen P. Crittenden
Eve S. Rose
and Jessica M. Sales
"Optimizing Prevention and Control of STI/HIV among Adolescents: A Social Contextual Perspective" 19. H. Virginia McCoy
Robert Malow
Ruth W. Edwards
Anne Thurland
Rhonda Rosenberg
"Evidence-Based Community Interventions: The Community Readiness Model" 20. Jessy G. Dévieux
Marie-Marcelle Deschamps
Deanne M. Samuels
Michèle M. Jean-Gilles
Gilbert Saint Jean
Lisa Metsch
and Robert Malow
"Barriers to Care among HIV-positive Haitians: An examination of sociocultural factor." 21. Peter Ibembe
"The Evolution of the ABC Strategy of HIV Prevention in Uganda: state and international impact on public health" 22. Kathy Goggin
Megan Pinkston
Nceba Gqaleni
Thandi Puoane
Douglas Wilson
Jannette Berkley-Patton
and David A. Martinez
"The Role of South African Traditional Health Practitioners in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment." Section 5: Policies of (In)Justice: Structural Responses to HIV 23. Framing Essay: Renee White
Cynthia Pope
and Robert Malow
"HIV
Public Health
and Social Justice: Reflections on the Ethics and Politics of Health Care" 24. Susan Craddock
"AIDS and the Politics of Violence." 25. Tim Frasca
"Lessons from the Latin American AIDS Epidemic" 26. Ronald Bayer and Gerald Oppenheimer. "Roll-out and Rationing: Providing Anti-retroviral Therapy in South Africa" 27. Tasleem Padamsee
"Understanding the Making of National HIV/AIDS Policies: The Critical Role of Health Care Institutions in the U.S. and the U.K." 28. Antonio Estrada and Barbara Estrada
"Barriers to HIV/AIDS Medical Care among HIV Infected Latinos Residing along the U.S.-Mexico Border" Section 6: Media and HIV/AIDS 29. Framing Essay: Seth Noar
"The Utility of 'Old' and 'New' Media as Tools for HIV Prevention" 30. Kylie Thomas
"HIV/AIDS: Towards a Living History in Post-Apartheid South Africa" 31. Kriss Barker
"Sex
Soap
and Social Change: The Sabido Methodology." 32. Siv Cheng
"A Cambodian Story of a Global Epidemic." Section 7: Vulnerable Populations: Conflict
Natural Disaster
and Migration 33. Framing Essay: Paul B. Spiegel and Anne Bennedsen
"The Epidemiology of HIV among Conflict-Affected and Displaced Populations: Current Concepts" 34. Karla Wagner
Deborah Brief
Melanie J. Vielhauer
Steve Sussman
Terence M. Keane
and Robert Malow
"The Potential for PTSD
Substance Use and HIV Risk Behavior among Adolescents Exposed to Hurricane Katrina" 35. Ezekiel Kalipeni
Joseph Oppong
and Jayati Ghosh
"Africa's Globalization: The Colonial Labor Economy
Migration and HIV/AIDS" 36. Roger McLean
"Mobile Populations
Vulnerability and HIV/AIDS in a Globalized world - the case of the English speaking Caribbean" 37. Heather Culbert
David Tu
Daniel P. O'Brien
Tom Ellman
Clair Mills
Nathan Ford
Tina Amisi
Keith Chan
Sarah Venis
Medecins San Frontieres
"HIV Treatment in a Conflict Setting: Outcomes and Experiences from Bukavu
Democratic Republic of the Congo." 38. Michael J. Westerhaus
Amy C. Finnegan
Yoti Zabulon
and Joia S. Mukherjee. "Framing HIV Prevention Discourse to Encompass the Complexities of War in Northern Uganda." Section 8: Living and Caring for Individuals with HIV/AIDS 39. Framing Essay: Todd Faubion
"Multiplicity of Meaning: Living with HIV/AIDS" 40. Mary Fisher
"A Word to Policymakers and Pilgrims." 41. Helen Ruth Aspaas. "Mending the Safety Net: Women Community Activists in AIDS-Affected Regions of East Africa." 42. Jonathan Mayer
"Back to Nima" 43. Ami Moore
"Resilience and meaning ascribed to the experiences of care giving to children living with HIV/AIDS in Togo" Section 9: Globalizing theory on HIV/AIDS: Frameworks for the future 44. Framing Essay: Sam Friedman
"Globalization and Interacting Large-scale Processes and How They May Affect the HIV/AIDS Epidemic" 45. Jason Meyers and Robin Kearns
"Feelings
Bodies
Places: New directions for geographies of HIV/AIDS" 46. Cindy Patton
"'Scaling Up:' Managing the Global and the Local in the HIV Pandemic" 47. Sandra Sufian
"Towards an Interdisciplinary Agenda for Research on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa: New Directions for the Age of Globalization" 48. Vinh-Kim Nguyen. "Viropolitics: How HIV is Producing Globalization"