Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Low and Middle Income Countries

by Celentano, David; Beyrer, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780387727103
• ISBN10: 0387727108
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

"Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Low and Middle Income Countries brings a comprehensive world context to the pandemic, tracking epidemiological trends, correcting misperceptions, and examining the impact of local, government, and international responses in countries as disparate as Brazil, Nigeria, the Russian Federation, and India. A top panel of local and regional experts offers the latest data on infection rates, details on risk-reduction and care programs, analysis of evolving social attitudes regarding HIV, and prospects for new initiatives in prevention and treatment." "Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Low- and Middle-Income Countries is the primer for researchers, practitioners, specialists, and students in HIV/AIDS, global health, and public health and policy. This mission-defining volume needs to be read by all those working to eradicate this devastating epidemic."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

David D. Celentano is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Director of the Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research integrates behavioral science theory and research with epidemiology, in the study of behavioral and social epidemiology. Celentano is the Principal Investigator of four NIH-supported studies in Thailand, focusing on interventions to influence the association between opiate use, methamphetamine use, and other drugs on HIV.Chris Beyrer is Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also the Founder and Director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins. He is a co-editor of Public Health and Human Rights: Evidence-Based Approaches, to be published in 2006 by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Table of Contents

Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in low and middle income countries : where global AIDS is and where it is going	p. 3
HIV prevention needs : primary prevention and prevention for people living with HIV/AIDS	p. 19
Future of HIV/AIDS care in low- and middle-income countries	p. 41
HIV/AIDS care : the minimum package and scaling up	p. 71
HIV/AIDS vaccine research	p. 85
Microbicide development	p. 115
How the pandemic shapes the public health response - the case of HIV/AIDS in Brazil	p. 135
Advocacy, activism, community and the AIDS response in Africa	p. 151
Political challenges to mounting and sustaining a public health response to HIV/AIDS in developing countries	p. 171
The HIV/AIDS epidemics of Africa	p. 187
The situation in the cradle of AIDS : Congo and Central Africa	p. 195
Public health aspects of HIV/AIDS - Nigeria and West Africa	p. 217
East Africa - Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda	p. 253
Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe)	p. 289
HIV/AIDS in the Horn of Africa	p. 331
HIV/AIDS in South and Southeast Asia : an overview	p. 367
China	p. 367
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand - the first two decades	p. 401
HIV AIDS in Burma : public health constrained	p. 433
The HIV epidemic in Vietnam : past, present, and opportunities	p. 457
Malaysia	p. 481
Towards equitable and quality HIV prevention and care services : assessing the situation in India	p. 501
The HIV/AIDS epidemics in the former Soviet Union, Central Asia, and Iran	p. 525
Russian Federation	p. 531
HIV in Central Asia : Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan	p. 557
Drug abuse and HIV transmission in Iran - responding to the public health challenges	p. 583
The HIV/AIDS epidemics of the Americas	p. 603
Epidemiology, prevention and care of HIV in Peru	p. 611
AIDS in Brazil : the challenge and the response	p. 629
The state of HIV/AIDS in the Dominican Republic : guarded optimism amidst sustainability concerns	p. 655
Public health aspects of HIV/AIDS in Haiti : epidemiology, prevention and cure	p. 671
HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care : present status, future needs and some possible solutions	p. 697
About the editors and contributors	p. 707
Index	p. 733
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