0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine

Buy Now

Rethinking AIDS Prevention - Learning from Successes in Developing Countries (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,940
Discovery Miles 19 400
Rethinking AIDS Prevention - Learning from Successes in Developing Countries (Hardcover, New): Edward C. Green

Rethinking AIDS Prevention - Learning from Successes in Developing Countries (Hardcover, New)

Edward C. Green

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R1,940 Discovery Miles 19 400 | Repayment Terms: R182 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

This is not another book about how AIDS is out of control in Africa and Third World nations, or one complaining about the inadequacy of secured funds to fight the pandemic. The author looks objectively at countries that have succeeded in reducing HIV infection rates...along with a worrisome flip side to the progress. The largely medical solutions funded by major donors have had little impact in Africa, the continent hardest hit by AIDS. Instead, relatively simple, low-cost behavioral change programs--stressing increased monogamy and delayed sexual activity for young people--have made the greatest headway in fighting or preventing the disease's spread. Ugandans pioneered these simple, sustainable interventions and achieved significant results. As National Review journalist Rod Dreher put it, "Rather than pay for clinics, gadgets and medical procedures--especially in the important earlier years of its response to the epidemic--Uganda mobilized human resources." In a New York Times interview, Green cited evidence that "partner reduction," promoted as mutual faithfulness, is the single most effective way of reducing the spread of AIDS. That deceptively simple solution is not merely about medical advances or condom use. It is about the ABC model: Abstain, Be faithful, and use Condoms if A and B are impossible. Yet deeply rooted Western biases have obstructed the effectiveness of AIDS prevention. Many Western scientists have attacked the ABC approach as impossible and moralistic. Some Western activists and HIV carriers have been outraged, thinking the approach passes moral judgment on their behaviors. But there is also a troubling suspicion among a growing number of scientists who support theABC model that certain opponents may simply be AIDS profiteers, more interested in protecting their incomes than battling the disease. This book is a bellwether in the escalating controversy, offering persuasive evidence in support of the ABC approach and exposing the fallacies and motivations of its opponents.

General

Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2003
First published: November 2003
Authors: Edward C. Green
Dimensions: 155 x 235 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 392
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-86569-316-6
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General
Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Infectious & contagious diseases > HIV / AIDS
LSN: 0-86569-316-1
Barcode: 9780865693166

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Lore Of Nutrition - Challenging…
Tim Noakes, Marika Sboros Paperback  (4)
R350 R273 Discovery Miles 2 730
Flu Fighters - How To Win The Cold War…
Patrick Holford Paperback R99 R78 Discovery Miles 780
HIV and AIDS: Education, Care And…
A. Van Dyk, E. Tlou, … Paperback  (5)
R709 R625 Discovery Miles 6 250
The Clever Guts Diet - How to…
Michael Mosley Paperback  (1)
R327 R266 Discovery Miles 2 660
Vlok's Community Health For Southern…
Marina Clarke Paperback R774 R680 Discovery Miles 6 800
Plague, Pox And Pandemics - A Jacana…
Howard Phillips Paperback R195 R153 Discovery Miles 1 530
The How Not To Die Cookbook - Over 100…
Michael Greger Paperback  (2)
R530 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140
Understanding Normal and Clinical…
Kathryn Pinna, Ellie Whitney, … Hardcover  (1)
R1,520 R1,363 Discovery Miles 13 630
Beat Cancer Kitchen - Deliciously Simple…
Chris Wark, Micah Wark Paperback R460 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590
Anti-Diet - Reclaim Your Time, Money…
Christy Harrison Paperback R388 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160
Child Health For All - A Manual For…
Tony Westwood, Haroon Saloojee, … Paperback R647 R598 Discovery Miles 5 980
Health Psychology - An Introduction to…
Linda Brannon, Jess Feist, … Paperback R1,309 R1,170 Discovery Miles 11 700

See more

Partners