HIV/AIDS

Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-95382-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1311 g

HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention provides a comprehensive overview of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. The unique anthology addresses cutting-edge issues in HIV/AIDS research, policymaking, and advocacy.

Key features include:

· Nine original essays from leading scholars in public health, epidemiology, and social and behavioral sciences

· Comprehensive information for individuals with varying degrees of knowledge, particularly regarding methodological and theoretical perspectives

· A look into the future progression of HIV transmission and scholarly research

HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention is will serve as a precious resource as a textbook and reference for the university classroom, libraries, and researchers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pope, Cynthia

White, Renee T.

Malow, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Peter Aggleton and Richard Parker, Globalization, Vulnerability, and the response to HIV and AIDS. Introduction 1. Cynthia Pope, Renée T. White, and Robert Malow, Global Convergences: Emerging Issues in HIV Risk, Prevention, and Treatment Section 1: Evolving Theories of Harm Reduction and HIV risk 2. Framing Essay: Scott Burris, Addressing the Risk Environment for Injection Drug Users: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cop. 3. Megan Comfort, HIV/AIDS and the United States’s Correctional Institutions: A Looming Public-Health Disaster. 4. Michael Duke, JiangHong Li, and Merrill Singer. Drug use, Syringe Sharing and HIV Risk in the People’s Republic of China 5. Scott Clair, Merrill Singer, Francisco I. Bastos, Monica Malta, Claudia Santelices, and N. Ebertoni. The Role of Drug Users in the Brazilian HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Patterns, Perceptions and Prevention. Section 2: Gender, Sexuality and HIV Risk 6. Framing Essay: Geeta Rao Gupta and Ellen Weiss, Gender and HIV: Reflecting Back, Moving Forward 7. Rhonda Rosenberg and Robert Malow, The Hard Science of Hard Risks in Women’s HIV Prevention: Making Biology Part of the Context. 8. Treena Orchard, John O’Neil, James Blanchard, and Stephen Moses, HIV/AIDS Prevention programming with ‘traditional’ sex workers in rural India: challenges for the empowerment approach in community-sanctioned sex work communities. 9. Olena Hankivsky, The Challenge of HIV/AIDS in Ukraine 10. Laëtitia Atlani-Duault, Homosexual Repression and AIDS in Post-soviet Central Asia 11. Hansjörg Dilger, African Sexualities Revisited: Gender, Social Relations and Culture in the Context of Globalization and AIDS in Tanzania. 12. Taigy Thomas, Lianne Urada, Donald Morisky, and Robert Malow, Best Practice Example of the Philippines: A Low-Level Prevalence Country and the Male Bridge Population Section 3: Critical Intersections between Biomedicine, Behavior, and HIV 13. Framing Essay: Sande Gracia Jones, Looking Inside the Pill Bottle: The Evolution of HIV Antiretroviral Combination Drug Therapy. 14. Laurie Sylla and Clair Kaplan, Microbicides: Revolutionizing HIV Prevention? 15. Durvasula, Ramani, Lisa R. Norman, and Robert Malow. Current Perspectives on the Neuropsychology of HIV 16. Jane Simoni, K. Rivet Amico, Cynthia Pearson, and Robert Malow, Overview of Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapies 17. Jannette Berkley-Patton, Adherence Masters: Reaching for Perfection in ART Adherence Section 4: Explorations in New Forms of Intervention and Prevention 18. Framing Essay: Ralph J. DiClemente, Colleen P. Crittenden, Eve S. Rose, and Jessica M. Sales, Optimizing Prevention and Control of STI/HIV among Adolescents: A Social Contextual Perspective 19. H. Virginia McCoy, Robert Malow, Ruth W. Edwards, Anne Thurland, Rhonda Rosenberg, Evidence-Based Community Interventions: The Community Readiness Model 20. Jessy G. Dévieux, Marie-Marcelle Deschamps, Deanne M. Samuels, Michèle M. Jean-Gilles, Gilbert Saint Jean, Lisa Metsch, and Robert Malow, Barriers to Care among HIV-positive Haitians: An examination of sociocultural factor. 21. Peter Ibembe, The Evolution of the ABC Strategy of HIV Prevention in Uganda: state and international impact on public health 22. Kathy Goggin, Megan Pinkston, Nceba Gqaleni, Thandi Puoane, Douglas Wilson, Jannette Berkley-Patton, and David A. Martinez, The Role of South African Traditional Health Practitioners in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment. Section 5: Policies of (In)Justice: Structural Responses to HIV 23. Framing Essay: Renee White, Cynthia Pope, and Robert Malow, HIV, Public Health, and Social Justice: Reflections on the Ethics and Politics of Health Care 24. Susan Craddock, AIDS and the Politics of Violence. 25. Tim Frasca, Lessons from the Latin American AIDS Epidemic 26. Ronald Bayer and Gerald Oppenheimer. Roll-out and Rationing: Providing Anti-retroviral Therapy in South Africa 27. Tasleem Padamsee, Understanding the Making of National HIV/AIDS Policies: The Critical Role of Health Care Institutions in the U.S. and the U.K. 28. Antonio Estrada and Barbara Estrada, Barriers to HIV/AIDS Medical Care among HIV Infected Latinos Residing along the U.S.-Mexico Border Section 6: Media and HIV/AIDS 29. Framing Essay: Seth Noar, The Utility of 'Old' and 'New' Media as Tools for HIV Prevention 30. Kylie Thomas, HIV/AIDS: Towards a Living History in Post-Apartheid South Africa 31. Kriss Barker, Sex, Soap, and Social Change: The Sabido Methodology. 32. Siv Cheng, A Cambodian Story of a Global Epidemic. Section 7: Vulnerable Populations: Conflict, Natural Disaster, and Migration 33. Framing Essay: Paul B. Spiegel and Anne Bennedsen, The Epidemiology of HIV among Conflict-Affected and Displaced Populations: Current Concepts 34. Karla Wagner, Deborah Brief, Melanie J. Vielhauer, Steve Sussman, Terence M. Keane, and Robert Malow, The Potential for PTSD, Substance Use and HIV Risk Behavior among Adolescents Exposed to Hurricane Katrina 35. Ezekiel Kalipeni, Joseph Oppong, and Jayati Ghosh, Africa’s Globalization: The Colonial Labor Economy, Migration and HIV/AIDS 36. Roger McLean, Mobile Populations, Vulnerability and HIV/AIDS in a Globalized world – the case of the English speaking Caribbean 37. Heather Culbert, David Tu, Daniel P. O’Brien, Tom Ellman, Clair Mills, Nathan Ford, Tina Amisi, Keith Chan, Sarah Venis, Medecins San Frontieres, HIV Treatment in a Conflict Setting: Outcomes and Experiences from Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 38. Michael J. Westerhaus, Amy C. Finnegan, Yoti Zabulon, and Joia S. Mukherjee. Framing HIV Prevention Discourse to Encompass the Complexities of War in Northern Uganda. Section 8: Living and Caring for Individuals with HIV/AIDS 39. Framing Essay: Todd Faubion, Multiplicity of Meaning: Living with HIV/AIDS 40. Mary Fisher, A Word to Policymakers and Pilgrims. 41. Helen Ruth Aspaas. Mending the Safety Net: Women Community Activists in AIDS-Affected Regions of East Africa. 42. Jonathan Mayer, Back to Nima 43. Ami Moore, Resilience and meaning ascribed to the experiences of care giving to children living with HIV/AIDS in Togo Section 9: Globalizing theory on HIV/AIDS: Frameworks for the future 44. Framing Essay: Sam Friedman, Globalization and Interacting Large-scale Processes and How They May Affect the HIV/AIDS Epidemic 45. Jason Meyers and Robin Kearns, Feelings, Bodies, Places: New directions for geographies of HIV/AIDS 46. Cindy Patton, ‘Scaling Up:’ Managing the Global and the Local in the HIV Pandemic 47. Sandra Sufian, Towards an Interdisciplinary Agenda for Research on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa: New Directions for the Age of Globalization 48. Vinh-Kim Nguyen. Viropolitics: How HIV is Producing Globalization

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia Pope is Associate Professor of Geography at Central Connecticut State University and Lecturer in Global Health at Yale University. Her work deals with the intersections of geopolitics, gender, and HIV risk in the developing world, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean.



Renee T. White is Professor of Sociology and co-director of Black Studies at Fairfield University. She is co-editor of the Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children and Youth. Her research focuses on health disparities, reproductive and AIDS-related social policy, urban inequalities and social justice.



Robert Malow is a Professor of Public Health at Florida International University and is associated editor of AIDS Education and Prevention. He has authored over 150 scientific publications and has led over a dozen National Institutes of Health-funded projects in the area of HIV and substance abuse.