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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.
* Unique and timely presentation of new theories and
perspectives
* Concentrates on the changes that have taken place in a broad
array of related disciplines
* Provides key contextual information, for those new to the field
or at interface areas between disciplines
* Includes an international focus on evolving African and Asian
experiences
* Focuses on the current strategies for developing vaccines and
microbicides
* Outlines harm reduction and prevention programs
* Explores issues related to delivery of life-saving AIDS
medications in resource-constrained environments
"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.
* Provides essential understanding of current and future
epidemics
* Presents a crossover perspective for disciplines in the medical
and social sciences and public policy, including public health,
infectious diseases, population science, epidemiology,
microbiology, food safety, defense preparedness and humanitarian
relief
* Creates a new perspective on ecology based on the interaction of
microbes and human activities
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.
There has not been a comprehensive medically based AIDS prevention
book published in the last five years. Since that time many new
program interventions have been tried and much has been learned
through evidence-based research. HIV Prevention will place special
focus on the array of interventions that have been proven effective
through rigorous study. If there is one theme that has been learned
to date it is that there is no one-size-fits-all prevention
approach that will work in all the geographic, demographic and
socio-cultural environments impacted by the worldwide AIDS
pandemic.
* Discusses all aspects of AIDS prevention, from epidemiology,
molecular immunology and virology to the principles of broad-based
public health prevention interventions.
* Special focus on the array of interventions that have been proven
effective through rigorous study
* Identifies new trends in HIV/AID epidemiology and their impact on
creating and implementing prevention interventions
* Incorporates virology, biology, infectious diseases, vaccinology,
microbicides and research methodologies into AIDS prevention
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