The Aids Pandemic In Latin America

Author : Shawn C. Smallman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146960678X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America written by Shawn C. Smallman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the more than 40 million people around the world currently living with HIV/AIDS, two million live in Latin America and the Caribbean. In an engaging chronicle illuminated by his travels in the region, Shawn Smallman shows how the varying histories and cultures of the nations of Latin America have influenced the course of the pandemic. He demonstrates that a disease spread in an intimate manner is profoundly shaped by impersonal forces. In Latin America, Smallman explains, the AIDS pandemic has fractured into a series of subepidemics, driven by different factors in each country. Examining cultural issues and public policies at the country, regional, and global levels, he discusses why HIV has had such a heavy impact on Honduras, for instance, while leaving the neighboring state of Nicaragua relatively untouched, and why Latin America as a whole has kept infection rates lower than other global regions, such as Africa and Asia. Smallman draws on the most recent scientific research as well as his own interviews with AIDS educators, gay leaders, drug traffickers, crack addicts, transvestites, and doctors in Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico. Highlighting the realities of gender, race, sexuality, poverty, politics, and international relations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Smallman brings a fresh perspective to understanding the cultures of the region as well as the global AIDS crisis.

Author : Tim Frasca
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403969446
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AIDS in Latin America written by Tim Frasca and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on the shocking reality of AIDS in Latin America.

Author : Anabela Garcia-Abreu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821353646
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HIV/AIDS in Latin American Countries written by Anabela Garcia-Abreu and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The report evaluates current national surveillance capacity and assesses national responses of the health sector to the epidemic on a country-by-country basis. Importantly, the report identifies key areas in which specific interventions are urgently needed and the challenges ahead.

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Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current and Future Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HIV/AIDS in Latin American Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Coker, Richard
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 033523366X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Systems And The Challenge Of Communicable Diseases: Experiences From Europe And Latin America written by Coker, Richard and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book looks at two regions where rapid economic changes means that many health systems must undergo organisational transition and find ways of adapting to an ever changing context.

Author : Lawrence O. Gostin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080787583X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The AIDS Pandemic written by Lawrence O. Gostin and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population--infected and uninfected--by influencing our social norms, our economy, and our country's role as a world leader. Now in the third decade of this pandemic, the nation and the world still fail to respond to the needs of persons living with HIV/AIDS and continue to tolerate injustice in their treatment, Gostin argues. AIDS, both in the United States and globally, deeply affects poor and marginalized populations, and many U.S. policies are based on conservative moral values rather than public health and social justice concerns. Gostin tackles the hard social, legal, political, and ethical issues of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: privacy and discrimination, travel and immigration, clinical trials and drug pricing, exclusion of HIV-infected health care workers, testing and treatment of pregnant women and infants, and needle-exchange programs. This book provides an inside account of AIDS policy debates together with incisive commentary. It is indispensable reading for advocates, scholars, health professionals, lawyers, and the concerned public.

Author : L. Meruane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137394994
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viral Voyages written by L. Meruane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
ISBN 13 : 9291738328
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AIDS Epidemic Update written by World Health Organization and published by WHO Regional Office Europe. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual AIDS epidemic update reports on the latest developments in the global AIDS epidemic. With maps and regional summaries, the 2009 edition provides the most recent estimates of the epidemic s scope and human toll and explores new trends in the epidemic's evolution.