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Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Low and Middle Income Countries - Epidemiology, Prevention and Care (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Low and Middle Income Countries - Epidemiology, Prevention and Care (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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It has now been 25 years since the apocryphal report in the CDC
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report dated June 5, 1981 entitled,
"Pneumocystis Pneumonia - Los Angeles", which announced what was to
become HIV/AIDS. HIV has now affected virtually all countries that
have looked for it and has had a devastating impact on the public
health and medical care infrastructure around the world. HIV/AIDS
has also disproportionately affected nations with the least
capacity to confront it, especially the developing world nations in
Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the emerging
republics of Eastern and Central Asia. The pandemic, unlike any
other disease of our time, has had profound impacts on the practice
of public health itself: bringing affected communities into
decision making; demanding North-South partnerships and
collaborations; and changing the basic conduct of clinical and
prevention trials research. While much has been written in
scholarly publications for medical, epidemiologic and disease
control specialists, there is no comprehensive review of the public
health impact and response to HIV/AIDS in the developing world.
This edited volume seeks to systematically describe the emergence
and form of the epidemics (epidemiology), the social, community and
political response, and the various measures to confront and
control the epidemic, with varying levels of success. Of particular
importance are strategies that appear to have been useful in
ameliorating the epidemic, while contrasting the situation in a
neighboring country or region where contrasting prevention or care
initiatives have had a deleterious outcome. Common to all responses
has been the international multi-sectoral response represented by
the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, the
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the Gates
Foundation, among others, to promote HIV pharmacologic therapy in
resource-poor settings. The chapter authors will explore the
political challenges in meeting HIV/AIDS prevention and care in
concert with the public health realities in specific country and
regional context.
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