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With HIV becoming the leading cause of infectious-disease mortality
in Mainland China, this book focuses on tackling HIV/AIDS in the
face of rapid political and economic change in China. Featuring
contributions by over a dozen leading figures in the field, this
book is the go-to text for any student or reader interested in how
national and international organizations' are attempting to control
this epidemic. The book includes chapters on the epidemiology,
treatment, and prevention of HIV, as well as several chapters that
discuss in detail specific provincial- and national-level programs
to control and treat HIV. It chronicles the Chinese government's
amazing about-face, as it replaced underfunded, non-evidence based
policy decisions with successful, science-based approaches to
disease control and prevention, including the adoption of once
controversial needle-exchange programs and the establishment of a
national HIV/AIDS data registry. It measures the success of
national policy decisions, the implementation of treatment
policies, and discusses the difficulty of accessing high-risk
communities, including people who inject drugs, sex workers, and
men who have sex with men - groups not easy to reach, study, engage
in prevention programs, or treatment, for fear of stigmatization
and loss of social status. Further, it documents the spread of HIV
to other provinces, and the tragedy that befell repeat plasma
donors in Henan and other poor provinces, where reused or
improperly sterilized lab equipment caused some villages to have
epidemic-level incidence rates. This book represents a positive
contribution to the field of AIDS research, making vital, new
information available to an interested readership.
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