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HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia, Volume I
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 90.00An in-depth look at the AIDS crisis in Russia and Eurasia. more...
AIDS in Asia
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 30.00The spread of AIDS in Asia is accelerating so quickly it will soon overtake growth of the disease in Africa. Over the next two decades, so containment of Asia's epidemics will be decisive to global stability because the region is home to 60 per cent of the world's population. more...
AIDS in Latin America
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 32.00Features many interviews with people who have the disease, activists, government leaders, church leadership - all speak out in telling the story of how the epidemic has developed in their countries. The interviews and stories, which make up this book, are intermixed with the set of epidemic statistics from the continent. more...
HIV in South Africa
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 50.95Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2008 Of approximately 37 million HIV positive people in the world, 24.7 million live in sub-Saharan Africa and about 5..5 million in South Africa. Despite its relatively powerful economy and infrastructure, South Africa has been dramatically affected by the HIV pandemic. Using narrative... more...
Progress on Drinking-water and Sanitation
World Health Organization 2008; US$ 15.00This report details global progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for drinking water and sanitation, and what these trends suggest for the remainder of the Water for Life Decade 2005-2015. The report also introduces a separate assessment of global, regional and country progress using the ?sanitation ladder??a new way of analyzing... more...
Aids and South Africa
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 40.00The HIV/AIDS pandemic striking South Africa is of historic proportions. More people are living with AIDS in South Africa than in any other country in the world. Just in the past decade, the life expectancy in South Africa has dropped from 67 to 43 years. The social and economic impact of this disease is hard to overstate. However, what is striking... more...





