World Disasters Report 2008 - Focus on HIV and AIDS
Title | World Disasters Report 2008 - Focus on HIV and AIDS PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Red Cross Red Crescent |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN | 9291391344 |
World Disasters Report
Title | World Disasters Report PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Disaster relief |
ISBN |
2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic
Title | 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic PDF eBook |
Author | Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. |
Publisher | World Health Organization |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN | 9291737119 |
"Knowing your epidemic" is essential for everyone involved in the response to HIV. Extensively illustrated with graphs and charts, this biennial report presents concise but comprehensive summaries of major issues in the global AIDS response. Annexes provide HIV estimates and data 2001 and 2007, and also country progress indicators.
World Disasters Report
Title | World Disasters Report PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Red Cross Red Crescent |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Disaster relief |
ISBN | 9291391425 |
Learning and Calamities
Title | Learning and Calamities PDF eBook |
Author | Heike Egner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2014-08-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134475810 |
It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastrophes) and that the affected individuals, groups, and enterprises, as well as the concerned (disaster-) management organizations and institutions for prevention and mitigation, will be able to be better prepared or more efficient next time. Furthermore, it is often assumed that the results of these learning processes are preserved as "knowledge" in the collective memory of a society, and that patterns of practices were adopted on this base. Within history, there is more evidence for the opposite: Analyzing past calamities reveals that there is hardly any learning and, if so, that it rarely lasts more than one or two generations. This book explores whether learning in the context of calamities happens at all, and if learning takes place, under which conditions it can be achieved and what would be required to ensure that learned cognitive and practical knowledge will endure on a societal level. The contributions of this book include various fields of scientific research: history, sociology, geography, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, development studies and political studies, as well as disaster research and disaster risk reduction research.
Global HIV/AIDS Politics, Policy, and Activism
Title | Global HIV/AIDS Politics, Policy, and Activism PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond A. Smith |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 1246 |
Release | 2013-10-28 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 0313399468 |
An international team of specialists in politics, policy, and activism provide an indispensable guide to the persistent challenges and emerging issues posed by the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, now in its fourth decade. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is at a critical turning point. Compelling new findings herald the potential to eventually grind the epidemic to a halt through a combination of expanded treatment coverage and new biomedical approaches to prevention. At the same time, the severe global economic downturns have negatively affected wealthy donor nations that have provided the funds and technical support for programs in the developing world. It is against this backdrop that this landmark three-volume set was developed. It provides a broad overview of the critical political issues surrounding HIV/AIDS, inspects key areas of policy and policymaking, and spotlights the most important forms of activism and community mobilization. The volumes reflect an eclectic and wide-ranging set of issues written by an international team comprising dozens of authors from nations including the United States, the United Kingdom, Ghana, South Africa, Brazil, Cambodia, Norway, and Qatar. The international contributors represent a variety of disciplines and bring with them a range of styles and methodological approaches appropriate to their specific topics and disciplines. An important addition to academic and public libraries, this expansive work will benefit students and other readers interested in politics, policymaking, public health, activism, and community mobilization, both in the United States and globally.
Post-Trial Access to Drugs in Developing Nations
Title | Post-Trial Access to Drugs in Developing Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Evaristus Chiedu Obi |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2017-07-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3319600281 |
This book begins the discourse on post-trial access to drugs in developing countries. Underlying ethical issues in global health inequalities and global health research serve as the context of the debate. Due to rampant allegations of violations of rights of research participants, especially in developing countries, it discusses the regulatory infrastructure and ethical oversight of international clinical research, thus emphasizing the priority of safeguarding the rights of research participants and host populations as desiderata in conducting clinical trials in developing countries. This is the first book that analyzes the major obstacles of affordable access to drugs in developing countries – patent and non-patent factors and how they can be overcome through a middle ground approach and a new paradigm to establish global health justice which includes national and global health responsibilities. The book also deals extensively with all complex aspects of the discourse on affordable access to drugs in developing countries, including intellectual property law, international regulations, political and cultural systems, international trade agreements. Furthermore it contains a robust ethical debate and in-depth analysis. The book crafts a paradigm of global health justice involving a sliding scale of national and global responsibilities for the realization of the right to health in general and access to drugs in particular.