HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention

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ISBN: 9780415953825 | 0415953820
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/24/2008

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This is a reader that seeks to address the need for a comprehensive resource for the social, political, gendered and biomedical implications of HIV/AIDS. This volume will include well known works on the subject as well as new articles specifically written for the book. This reader would target a wide audience across several disciplines including politics, sociology and bioethics.

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Globalization, Vulnerability, and the Response to HIV and AIDS
Global Convergences: Emerging Issues in HIV Risk, Prevention, and Treatment	p. 1
Addressing the 'Risk Environment' for Injection Drug Users: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cop	p. 11
Inside and Out: Incarceration, HIV/AIDS, and Public Health in the United States	p. 27
Drug Use, Syringe Sharing, and HIV Risk in the People's Republic of China	p. 40
The Role of Drug Users in the Brazilian HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Patterns, Perceptions, and Prevention	p. 50
Gender and HTV: Reflecting Back, Moving Forward	p. 61
The Hard Science of Hard Risks in Women's HIV Prevention: Making Biology Part of the Context	p. 73
HIV/AIDS Prevention Programming with 'Traditional' Sex Workers in Rural India: Challenges for the Empowerment Approach in Community-Sanctioned Sex Work Environments	p. 82
The Challenges of HIV/AIDS in Ukraine	p. 96
Homosexual Repression and AIDS in Post-Soviet Central Asia	p. 112
'African Sexualities' Revisited: The Morality of Sexuality and Gender in the Era of Globalization and AIDS in Tanzania	p. 124
Best Practice Example from the Philippines: A Low-Level Prevalence Country and the Male 'Bridge' Population	p. 137
Looking Inside the Pill Bottle: The Evolution of HTV Antiretroviral Combination Drug Therapy	p. 149
Microbicides: Revolutionizing HIV Prevention?	p. 164
Current Perspectives on the Neuropsychology of HIV	p. 177
Overview of Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapies	p. 191
Adherence Masters: Reaching for Perfection in ART Adherence	p. 201
A Social Contextual Perspective to Optimize the Prevention and Control of STI/HIV among Adolescents	p. 215
Evidence-Based Community Interventions: The Community Readiness Model	p. 227
Barriers to Care among HIV-positive Haitians: An Examination of Sociocultural Factors	p. 238
The Evolution of the ABC Strategy of HIV Prevention in Uganda: Domestic and International Implications	p. 246
The Role of South African Traditional Health Practitioners in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment	p. 256
HIV, Public Health, and Social Justice: Reflections on the Ethics and Politics of Health Care	p. 269
AIDS and the Politics of Violence	p. 279
Lessons from the Latin American AIDS Epidemic	p. 292
Rollout and Rationing: Providing Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa	p. 305
Understanding the Making of National HIV/AIDS Policies: The Critical Role of Health Care Institutions in the U.S. and U.K.	p. 318
Barriers to HIV/AIDS Medical Care among HIV-infected Latinos Residing along the U.S.-Mexico Border	p. 328
The Utility of 'Old' and 'New' Media as Tools for HIV Prevention	p. 343
Photographic Images, HIV/AIDS, and Shifting Subjectivities in South Africa	p. 355
Sex, Soap, and Social Change: The Sabido Methodology of Behavior Change Communication	p. 368
A Cambodian Story of a Global Epidemic	p. 382
The Epidemiology of HTV among Conflict-Affected and Displaced Populations: Current Concepts	p. 395
The Potential for PTSD, Substance Use, and HIV Risk Behavior among Adolescents Exposed to Natural Disasters: Implications for Hurricane Katrina Survivors	p. 403
Africa's Globalization: Colonial Labor Economy, Migration, and HIV/AIDS	p. 414
Mobile Populations, Vulnerability, and HIV/AIDS in a Globalized World: The Case of the English-Speaking Caribbean	p. 430
Framing HIV Prevention Discourse to Encompass the Complexities of War in Northern Uganda	p. 445
Multiplicity of Meaning: Living with HIV/AIDS	p. 451
A Word to Policymakers and Pilgrims"	p. 459
Mending the Safety Net: Women Community Activists in AIDS-Affected Regions of East Africa	p. 463
Back to Nima	p. 473
Resilience and Meaning in Caregiving for Children Living with HIV/AIDS in Togo	p. 478
Globalization and Interacting Large-Scale Processes and How They May Affect the HTV/AIDS Epidemic	p. 491
Feelings, Bodies, Places: New Directions for Geographies of HIV/AIDS	p. 501
A Global Clinic? Prevention, Treatment, and the Problem of Scale in the World Health Organization's 3X5 Antiretroviral Treatment Program	p. 511
Towards an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda on HTV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa: New Directions for the Age of Globalization	p. 523
Viropolitics: How HTV Produces Therapeutic Globalization	p. 539
The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic: A timeline of key milestones	p. 551
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