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Characterizing the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa
World Bank Publications 2010; US$ 24.99Despite global progress in understanding the epidemiology of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), knowledge about the epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains limited and subject to much controversy. In the more than 25 years since the discovery of HIV, no scientific study has provided a comprehensive, data-driven synthesis of... more...
Morality, Hope and Grief
Berghahn Books 2010; US$ 95.00The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order to offer innovative insights into the complex processes... more...
Network Epidemiology
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 149.99Over the past two decades, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS has challenged the public health community to fundamentally rethink the framework for preventing infectious diseases. While much progress has been made on the biomedical front in treatments for HIV infection, prevention still relies on behaviour change. This book documents and explains the remarkable... more...
My Life
Random House 2012; US$ 7.99My Life is the inspirational autobiography of Magic, the top-class athlete whose astonishing career is already a legend. He reflects on his boyhood in Michigan, his college career, his meteoric rise to basketball fame, the women he has met along the way and his most recent triumphs in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona with the larger-than-life 'Dream... more...
AIDS Trauma and Support Group Therapy
Free Press 2010; Not AvailableAn empowering guidebook which comprehensively addresses issues related to planning, implementing, and facilitating support groups for people with AIDS. more...
AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal
Amsterdam University Press 2011; US$ 52.50In 2003-2006, Patricia Henderson lived in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal where she recorded the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS. In this illuminating study, she recounts the concerns of rural people and explores local repertoires through which illness was folded into everyday life. The book spans a period when antiretroviral... more...
Virus Alert
Columbia University Press 2009; US$ 49.99Bound up with the human cost of HIV/AIDS is the critical issue of its impact on national and international security, yet attempts to assess the pandemic's complex risk fail to recognize the political dangers of construing the disease as a security threat. The securitization of HIV/AIDS not only affects the discussion of the disease in international... more...
Three Decades of HIV/AIDS in ASIA
SAGE India 2012; US$ 59.95A work by health and development experts and professionals, this well-researched compilation traces the evolving and highly dynamic nature of HIV/AIDS and its unprecedented health and development threat in Asia. Three decades of HIV/AIDS in Asia studies how the region has responded to this epidemic in the last three decades. It contains country-specific... more...
The New Public Health and STD/HIV Prevention
Springer 2013; US$ 99.99Despite effective approaches to prevention, STD and HIV infection rates remain fairly constant. Targeting, implementation, and monitoring of interventions have posed widespread problems, and the recent spate of cuts to prevention budgets has made these roadblocks even more challenging. It is clear that working in sexual health requires both a deeper... more...
Encyclopedic Dictionary of AIDS-Related Terminology
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 41.95Make sense out of confusing HIV/AIDS terminology! Finally, here is a reference work that contains clear and useful definitions of words, phrases, and medical terms associated with HIV/AIDS! The Encyclopedic Dictionary of AIDS-Related Terminology is an easy-to-understand guide to all of the mainstream jargon surrounding this epidemic. This user-friendly... more...









