Aids And Behavior

Author : Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Social and Behavioral Science Base for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention. Workshop
Publisher : National Academies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessing the Social and Behavioral Science Base for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention written by Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Social and Behavioral Science Base for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention. Workshop and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Understanding the epidemic -- Learning from lives : individuals within a social context -- Understanding high-risk communities -- Making a difference : controlling the epidemic through social intervention -- Intermediate technologies in medically based prevention trials -- Evaluating results.

Author : Edward C Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315435160
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AIDS, Behavior, and Culture written by Edward C Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AIDS, Behavior, and Culture presents a bold challenge to the prevailing wisdom of “the global AIDS industry” and offers an alternative framework for understanding what works in HIV prevention. Arguing for a behavior-based approach, Green and Ruark make the case that the most effective programs are those that encourage fundamental behavioral changes such as abstinence, delay of sex, faithfulness, and cessation of injection drug use. Successful programs are locally based, low cost, low tech, innovative, and built on existing cultural structures. In contrast, they argue that anthropologists and public health practitioners focus on counseling, testing, condoms, and treatment, and impose their Western values, culture, and political ideologies in an attempt to “liberate” non-Western people from sexual repression and homophobia. This provocative book is essential reading for anyone working in HIV/AIDS prevention, and a stimulating introduction to the key controversies and approaches in global health and medical anthropology for students and general readers.

Author : Ralph J. DiClemente
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489911936
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing AIDS written by Ralph J. DiClemente and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public health has a legacy of neglect regarding social and behavioral research. Too often, prompted by technical and scientific progress, we have ignored even marginalized-the vital "human element" in health thinking and prac tice. Thus, for example, while family planning programs focused on providing a choice among safe and effective contraceptive methods (a supremely worthy goal), the central issue of sexuality and sexual behavior was generally neglected. Similarly, the enormous and important efforts to develop rapid and reliable diagnostic and treatment methods for sexually transmitted diseases helped divert attention away from the crucial issues of sexual practice. In short, we seem to have difficulty addressing the fundamental behaviors-including sex, drug taking and other intoxications, and violence-that are central to the major causes of preventable morbidity, disability, and premature mortality in the world today. Our collective reluctance to examine and understand ourselves is also expressed in the oft-repeated pipedream that scientific progress will "take care of" the HIV / AIDS pandemic by delivering a preventive vaccine, an effective cure, or both. Yet even a cursory glance at the relationship between scientific/ technical progress and health shows that meeting the scientific challenges is only one step toward effective application of the vaccine or drug. It is typical, not atypical, that hepatitis B vaccine is only now becoming relatively freely available to large populations in the developing world, more than a decade after the vaccine's licensure.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309050936
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AIDS and Behavior written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV is spreading rapidly, and effective treatments continue to elude science. Preventive interventions are now our best defense against the epidemicâ€"but they require a clear understanding of the behavioral and mental health aspects of HIV infection and AIDS. AIDS and Behavior provides an update of what investigators in the biobehavioral, psychological, and social sciences have discovered recently about those aspects of the disease and offers specific recommendations for research directions and priorities. This volume candidly discusses the sexual and drug-use behaviors that promote transmission of HIV and reports on the latest efforts to monitor the epidemic in its social contexts. The committee reviews new findings on how and why risky behaviors occur and efforts to develop strategies for changing such behaviors. The volume presents findings on the disease's progression and on the psychosocial impacts of HIV and AIDS, with a view toward intervention and improved caregiving. AIDS and Behavior also evaluates the status of behavioral and prevention aspects of AIDS research at the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The volume presents background on the three institutes; their recent reorganization; their research budgets, programs, and priorities; and other important details. The committee offers specific recommendations for the institutes concerning the balance between biomedical and behavioral investigations, adequacy of administrative structures, and other research management issues. Anyone interested in the continuing quest for new knowledge on preventing HIV and AIDS will want to own this book: policymakers, researchers, research administrators, public health professionals, psychologists, AIDS advocates and service providers, faculty, and students.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309090180
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing and Mitigating AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to affect all facets of life throughout the subcontinent. Deaths related to AIDS have driven down the life expectancy rate of residents in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda with far-reaching implications. This book details the current state of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what is known about the behaviors that contribute to the transmission of the HIV infection. It lays out what research is needed and what is necessary to design more effective prevention programs.

Author : Seth C. Kalichman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317778642
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing Aids written by Seth C. Kalichman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of behavioral interventions to prevent HIV-AIDS risk-related behaviors. It synthesizes the empirical literature on individual, group, and community-level interventions and provides an objective and detailed assessment of intervention outcomes. Factors associated with behavioral risk for HIV transmission, theories of HIV risk behavior change, and the state of HIV prevention technology transfer are also reviewed. Additionally, behavioral interventions for adolescents and adults of diverse ethnic and sexual backgrounds are discussed with respect to each intervention type. Although the focus is on sexual risk reduction, interventions for sexual behavior of substance abusing populations are also covered.

Author : Cynthia Gallois
Publisher : Garland Science
ISBN 13 : 113467564X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Reasoned Action written by Cynthia Gallois and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theory of reasoned action explores the theory and emphirical reserach in to the factors which influence whether people engage in high-risk practices , with specific reference to AIDS education.

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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book AIDS and Behavior: An Integrated Approach (1994). written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the full text of a book entitled "AIDS and Behavior: An Integrated Approach (1994)," edited by Judith D. Auerbach, Christina Wypijewska, and H. Keith H. Brodie and provided online by the National Academy Press. Discusses human behavior and the AIDS virus in the United States. Outlines research programs that include interventions driven by basic behavior and behavioral change.

Author : King K. Holmes
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464805253
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 6) written by King K. Holmes and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death globally, particularly among children and young adults. The spread of new pathogens and the threat of antimicrobial resistance pose particular challenges in combating these diseases. Major Infectious Diseases identifies feasible, cost-effective packages of interventions and strategies across delivery platforms to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, malaria, adult febrile illness, viral hepatitis, and neglected tropical diseases. The volume emphasizes the need to effectively address emerging antimicrobial resistance, strengthen health systems, and increase access to care. The attainable goals are to reduce incidence, develop innovative approaches, and optimize existing tools in resource-constrained settings.

Author : United States. National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behavioral and Social Sciences and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic written by United States. National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: