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Helping Ourselves - Community Responses to AIDS in Swaziland
World Health Organization 2006; US$ 13.50The Kingdom of Swaziland now has the highest recorded HIV prevalence in the world, and this southern African country faces enormous challenges, particularly when it comes to looking after the thousands of children orphaned by the epidemic. However, much inspirational work is being done at community level to put in place structures and programmes to... more...
High Coverage Sites: HIV Prevention among Injecting Drug Users in Transitional and Developing Countries
World Health Organization 2006; US$ 13.50UNAIDS commissioned this report to investigate programmes and sites in low-income and transitional countries which were regarded by international authorities as 'high coverage sites' -that is, where more than 50% of injecting drug users had been reached by one or more HIV-prevention interventions. The most significant finding is that high level coverage... more...
Stroke
Demos Medical Publishing 2007; US$ 45.00This volume is the fourth in a series developed under the auspices of the World Federation of Neurology to meet the needs of neurologists who must practice medicine without many of the advantages that are often taken for granted in the industrialized world. It is targeted to neurologists practicing in low-resource environments and those who wish to... more...
HIV, Resurgent Infections and Population Change in Africa
Springer 2007; US$ 47.99Forty years ago, the age-old battle against infectious diseases as a major threat to human health was believed close to being won. However, by the late twentieth century, the increase of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases was evident in both low and high income countries. About 30 new infectious diseases have been identified in the last 20... more...
AIDS Sexuality and Gender in Africa
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 59.95While there is a growing list of publications devoted to the AIDS epidemic, Africa, with two-thirds of the world's cases, still receives scant attention. This book may change the way we think about AIDS and how it is being addressed in Africa and the rest of the world. The book draws on first-hand research and in-depth investigations carried out by... more...
Sexuality, Politics and AIDS in Brazil
Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 59.95Providing a cross-cultural perspective on the social construction of AIDS in Brazil, this book presents research by authors who have a decades experience in AIDS activism and social research. more...
Neo-liberalism and AIDS Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 122.00O'Manique critically examines the evolution of the policy response to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa through a feminist political economy lens, focusing on the relationship between neo-liberalism, the spread of AIDS and the hegemonic policy response. It explores the ways in which AIDS has been constructed as a 'development' problem and how AIDS knowledges... more...
Global AIDS Crisis
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 55.00An account published of the history, spread, and repercussions of pandemic AIDS. It explores how developing countries with limited access to healthcare and scarce resources reveals how such factors as tourism, international travel, war, and mobility have facilitated the spread of HIV and AIDS. more...
Remote Cardiology Consultations Using Advanced Medical Technology
IOS Press 2006; US$ 144.00NATO operations have expanded, and the old Cold War concept of "every nation provides its own medical support" is no longer tenable, nor is it NATO policy. In the future, NATO medical care will be provided on a multinational basis, especially in case of emergencies such as NATO response to natural or man-made disasters or to terrorist actions. more...
Health Systems Confront Poverty
World Health Organization 2003; US$ 36.00Health care systems across the WHO European Region have done and are doing much to tackle the complex and daunting problem of poverty and health. This book describes 12 initiatives already undertaken in 10 WHO Member States. It documents WHO's preliminary findings on how health care systems can help to alleviate poverty, and reaches three main conclusions:... more...









