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Disease (Communicable and noninfectious) and public health

  • 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemicby UNAIDS

    World Health Organization 2008; US$ 40.00

    "Knowing your epidemic" is essential for everyone involved in the response to HIV. Extensively illustrated with graphs and charts, this biennial report presents concise but comprehensive summaries of major issues in the global AIDS response. Annexes provide HIV estimates and data 2001 and 2007, and also country progress indicators. more...

  • 2008 UNAIDS Annual Reportby UNAIDS

    World Health Organization 2009; US$ 10.00

    In November 2007, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) published data showing that HIV prevalence has stabilized, even though the number of people living with HIV continues to rise. The following year, a joint UNAIDS, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and WHO report announced that 3... more...

  • ABC of Sexually Transmitted Infectionsby Karen E. Rogstad

    Wiley 2011; US$ 44.95

    With sexually transmitted infections (STIs) a major cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world, the new edition of ABC of Sexually Transmitted Infections  is a much-needed introduction and reference guide providing concise and practical information on a range of conditions. This sixth edition includes the latest guidance on the prevalence,... more...

  • AIDS: Activism and Alliancesby Peter Aggleton; Peter Davis; Graham Hart

    Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 65.95

    From the start of the AIDS epidemic there have been calls for greater solidarity between affected groups and communities, and public health services. This can be seen both in the move towards healthy alliances in health service work, and in the demands of AIDS activists worldwide. This text brings together specially selected papers addressing these... more...

  • AIDS, Drugs and Preventionby Richard Hartnoll; Tim Rhodes

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 59.95

    AIDS, Drugs and Prevention brings together a range of international contributions on the research, theory and practice of developing community-based HIV prevention. It aims to understand how individual actions to prevent HIV transmission are constrained and encouraged by situational and social context. Drawing on ethnographic and epidemiological... more...

  • AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natalby Patricia C. Henderson

    Amsterdam University Press 2011; US$ 52.50

    In 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...

  • AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledgeby Alex Preda

    Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 77.00

    This book shows how scientific knowledge about epidemics is shaped by the broader culture of advanced societies. The latter includes metaphors, narratives, and social classifications. The book examines the formation of scientific knowledge about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and highlights common features with the SARS epidemic. more...

  • AIDS: Rights, Risk and Reasonby Peter Aggleton; Peter Davies; Graham Hart

    Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 57.95

    Based on articles chosen from the sixth annual 'Social Aspects of AIDS' conference, this book focuses on up-to-date accounts of HIV/AIDS research and associated social/sexual issues. more...

  • AIDS: Safety, Sexuality and Riskby Peter Aggleton; Peter Davies; Graham Hart

    Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 59.95

    Some 12 years into the epidemic, with an effective preventive vaccine or therapy against HIV disease still to be found, this book reflects on the contributions of social and behavioural research to the development of interventions for prevention. After over a decade's work documenting HIV and AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviour, social... more...

  • AIDS, Sex, and Cultureby Ida Susser

    Wiley 2011; US$ 41.95

    AIDS, Sex, and Culture is a revealing examination of the impact the AIDS epidemic in Africa has had on women, based on the author’s own extensive ethnographic research. based on the author's own story growing up in South Africa looks at the impact of social conservatism in the US on AIDS prevention programs discussion of the experiences... more...