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The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS has, and
continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines it
touches. Novel perspectives are provided by a unique panel of
internationally recognised experts who cover the unprecedented
impact onf AIDS on culture, demographics and politics around the
world, including how it affected the worlds' economy, health
sciences, epidemiology and public health. This important far-
reaching analysis uses the lessons learned from a wide array of
disciplines to help us understand the current status and evolution
of the pandemic, as it continues to evolve.
"Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases" explores how human
activities enable microbes to disseminate and evolve, thereby
creating favorable conditions for the diverse manifestations of
communicable diseases. Today, infectious and parasitic diseases
cause about one-third of deaths and are the second leading cause of
morbidity and mortality. The speed that changes in human behavior
can produce epidemics is well illustrated by AIDS, but this is only
one of numerous microbial threats whose severity and spread are
determined by human behaviors. In this book, forty experts in the
fields of infectious diseases, the life sciences and public health
explore how demography, geography, migration, travel, environmental
change, natural disaster, sexual behavior, drug use, food
production and distribution, medical technology, training and
preparedness, as well as governance, human conflict and social
dislocation influence current and likely future epidemics.
Human rights violations are underlying causes of adverse health outcomes for vulnerable people and populations around the world. Public Health and Human Rights provides critical, evidence-based assessments and tools with which to investigate the role of rights abrogation in the health of populations -- from repressive laws to social discord, gender-based violence, human trafficking, and violations in conflict. Divided into three sections, this provocative work investigates how the complex interactions between rights and health can best be studied, analyzed, and remedied; how the efforts of human rights advocates affect health outcomes; and how modern public health procedures can assist in documenting, understanding, and preventing human rights violations. Part I illuminates the powerful relationship between rights work and public health practice in Thailand, Russia, Burma, and China and in U.S. prisons. Part II explores new methodologies and new uses of previous practices for rights-based public health research. Part III confronts current policy approaches -- such as Brazil's integration of rights, HIV/AIDS programming, and the contradictory and confounding global policies on illicit drugs -- and offers recommendations for future programs and strategies.
HIV/AIDS continues to be the pandemic of our times. It is estimated
that 36 to 45 million people including 2-3 million children already
are infected worldwide and an additional 4-7 million more are
infected each year.
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