HIV Prevention in the Third Decade
Title | HIV Prevention in the Third Decade PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | HIV infections |
ISBN |
Cdc HIV Prevention Strategic Plan
Title | Cdc HIV Prevention Strategic Plan PDF eBook |
Author | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2014-10-19 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9781502886866 |
We are now in the third decade of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and although HIV prevention efforts have grown substantially over time and we have made important progress, major unmet needs remain.
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 6)
Title | Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 6) PDF eBook |
Author | King K. Holmes |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 1027 |
Release | 2017-11-06 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1464805253 |
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.
AIDS and Adolescents
Title | AIDS and Adolescents PDF eBook |
Author | Lorraine Sherr |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN | 9789057020384 |
This text provides insight into a wide range of adolescent issues. A series of contributions examines facts and fictions associated with adolescent risk, challenging some of the basic current notions underpinning approaches to the subject.
HIV Prevention
Title | HIV Prevention PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth H. Mayer |
Publisher | Academic Press |
Pages | 692 |
Release | 2009-03-13 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0080921299 |
HIV/AIDS continues to be the pandemic of our times and there has not been a comprehensive medically based AIDS prevention book published in the last 5 years. 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 are about 6,000 new infections daily and about 12 million AIDS orphans. People receiving AIDS treatments feel well and have no detectable viral load, but still can infect others. And even when a vaccine is found, it will take many years before it can be administered across the developing world. - 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
Conditions of Uncertainty
Title | Conditions of Uncertainty PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Gaspar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 557 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The HIV prevention field in Canada has failed to achieve a stabilising point, a lack of consensus on the effectiveness of risk management strategies, in its third decade, the transition to the biomedical era of HIV prevention. Under these conditions of uncertainty we have witnessed epistemic and social and political uncertainties proliferate. Experts debate long-standing and emerging prevention strategies. Newly produced knowledge complicates our understanding of gay male HIV prevention but often lacks appropriate validity and generalizability. Governing practices are implemented to respond to this knowledge, but in conflicting ways. For everyday social actors, these uncertainties morph into complicated forms of experiential uncertainty. I first present this dissertation as a work of critical social science on HIV. Drawing from critical studies on risk and uncertainty I then produce an original analytic framework termed the uncertainty triad. I then examine biomedical and public health research and critical perspectives on gay male HIV prevention, arguing that the field cultivates uncertainty to 2beat-up3 the epidemic. I then present data from 33 in-depth interviews conducted with young HIV-negative gay men to discuss their everyday confrontations with serostatus uncertainty (an inability to confirm one’s HIV-negativity). This is a move away from analysing motivations for condomless anal sex and focusing exclusively on 2high risk men.3 To avoid exclusively tapping into the HIV epistemic community, the interviewees hadn’t previously participated in a research interview about HIV and had no regular involvement with an AIDS service organisation.I then present an original theory on risk disposition, which investigates a social actor’s processes of risk reflexivity and his tolerance to serostatus uncertainty. Social conditions affecting the experiences of health maintenance, institutional navigation and sexual practice can shape tolerance to serostatus uncertainty by minimising or fostering anxiety. Drawing on the notion of sexual practice over sexual behaviour, I then examine HIV-negative gay men’s confrontations with HIV-related ethico-political challenges such as HIV stigma, serosorting and the criminalisation of HIV non-disclosure. I argue that biomedical optimism does not necessarily lead to the abandonment of condoms among HIV-negative gay men and that many remain sceptical of the prevention benefits of HIV treatments.
No Time to Lose
Title | No Time to Lose PDF eBook |
Author | Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2001-03-02 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309071372 |
The United States has spent two productive decades implementing a variety of prevention programs. While these efforts have slowed the rate of infection, challenges remain. The United States must refocus its efforts to contain the spread of HIV and AIDS in a way that would prevent as many new HIV infections as possible. No Time to Lose presents the Institute of Medicine's framework for a national prevention strategy.