AIDS in Europe : New Challenges for the Social Sciences

by Aggleton, Peter; Moatti, Jean-Paul; Prieur, Annick; Sandfort, Theo

• ISBN13: 9780203500934
• ISBN10: 0203500938
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135364151
• Copyright: 2002-05-03
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Major changes in the nature and dynamics of the AIDS epidemic over the last few years are reflected in changing epidemiological trends as well as in the progress made in biomedical research and treatment. AIDS in Europe brings together papers from leading social science researchers to look at the opportunities and challenges these changes bring and the different ways in which they are being responded to in both western and eastern Europe. Papers are organised under three headings: *new challenges for HIV prevention *care of people living with HIV/AIDS in a new therapeutic context *AIDS public policies: from specialisation to normalisation AIDS in Europe provides a comprehensive overview of current social and behavioural research on HIV and AIDS for all health professionals.

Author Biography

Peter Aggleton is Professor in Education and Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London Demosthenes Agrafiotis is Professor of Sociology at the National School of Public Health in Athens, Greece Eddy Beck is a senior lecturer in epidemiology and public health at Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary's Campus Michael Bochow is a research fellow at Intersofia (Institute for Applied Interdisciplinary Research in Social Problems), Berlin Mary Boulton is a Professor of Sociology at Oxford Brookes University Jose Catalan is a reader in psychiatry at Imperial College School of Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Campus Valerity Chervyakov is a sociologist and Director of the Transnational Family Research Institute in Moscow Francois Delor is a researcher at Centre d'Etudes Sociologiques, Facultes Universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels Owen Noel Gill is a consultant epidemiologist at the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Public Health Laboratory Service, in London Dominique Hausser is a physician and a senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Dominique Joye is currently a senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Milena Komarova is a part-time social survey research consultant at the UNAIDS office in Sofia Igor Kon is a sociologist and psychologist. He is a principal researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Head of the Advisory Board for the Transnational Family Research Institute in Moscow Mirjam Kretzschmar is a senior research scientist in the Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in Bilthoven, The Netherlands Daniel Kubler is a political scientist and researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne Hugues Lagrange is a senior researcher at the Observatorie Sociologique du Changement (National Centre for Scientific Research) in Paris France Lert is a senior fellow at INSERM, Saint-Maurice, France Brigitte Lhomond is a sociologist and researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Lyons, France Christine Ann McGarrigle is a senior scientist at the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Public Health Laboratory Service, in London Dominique Malatesta is a researcher in sociology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne Olga Metallinou has a specialist background in psychology and health. She is working as a psychologist at the Counselling Centre of MERIMNA -- a Society for the Care of Children and Families facing Illness and Death David Miller is Emeritus Professor of Public Health Medicine at Imperial College School of Medicine and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health at UMDS in London Jean-Paul Moatti is Professor of Economics at the University of the Mediterranean and Director of the INSERM Research Unit on Social Sciences Applied to Medical Innovation in Marseilles, France Joanne Neale is a research fellow in the Centre for Drug Misuse Research, University of Glasgow Genevieve Paicheler is Director of Research at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France Pauline Pantzou is a psychologist and scientific collaborator at the Department of Sociology at the National School of Public Health in Athens, Greece Annick Prieur is a researcher at the NOVA Institute for Social Research in Oslo Michel Rotily is Director of Studies at the Regional Health Watch (ORSPACA), Marseilles, France Theo Sandfort is a social psychologist in the Research School of Psychology and Health at Utrecht University and at The Netherlands Institute for Social Sexological Research (NISSO, Utrecht) Yves Souteyrand is a health economist at INSERM (the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research). He is currently Chief of the Office of Public Health and Socio-Behavioural Research at the National Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS) Bruno Spire is a virologist who recently joined the INSERM Research Unit on Social Sciences Applied to Medical Innovation in Marseilles Monika Steffen is a researcher in the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and is an affiliate of the Institute of Political Studies at the University of Grenoble Chryssa Tselepi is a sociologist of health, she is worked as a researcher in the Department of Sociology at the National School of Public Health in Athens, Greece Biliana Vassileva is a programme assistant at the UNAIDS office in Sofia Sam Walters is a senior lecturer in paediatric infectious disease at Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary's Campus Caren Weilandt is a psychologist and psychotherapist who works for the Scientific Institute of the German Medical Association (WIAD) Jeffrey J. Weiss is a clinical psychologist

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. x
Notes on contributors	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Living with HIV and therapeutic advances	p. 11
Coping with a chronic illness: the experience of families of HIV-infected children	p. 13
HIV seropositivity, adaptation and everyday life in Greece	p. 26
Psychological and behavioural factors and the natural history of HIV infection	p. 36
Attitudinal factors and adherence to protease inhibitor combination therapy	p. 45
Living with HIV/AIDS and adherence to antiretroviral treatments	p. 57
New perspectives on sexuality	p. 75
Seropositivity, risk and sexuality	p. 77
Socio-economic status and HIV prevalence among gay men in Germany	p. 92
Condom use among 15 to 18 year-olds in France: changes in behaviour over time	p. 103
Sexual revolution in Russia and the tasks of sex education	p. 119
Young people, social relationships and sexuality in Bulgaria	p. 135
Drug use: user and policy perspectives	p. 147
Risk behaviour and HIV infection in European prisons	p. 149
Drug users' views and service evaluation	p. 165
Between public health and public order: harm reduction facilities and neighbourhood problems	p. 178
Drug use, AIDS and social exclusion in France	p. 189
Accounting for the epidemic	p. 205
The normalisation of AIDS policies in Europe: patterns, path dependency and innovation	p. 207
UK HIV testing practice: by how much might the infection diagnosis rate increase through normalisation?	p. 223
Modelling network structure: implications for the spread and prevention of HIV infection	p. 234
Understanding risk management: towards an integration of individual, interactive and social levels	p. 247
Index	p. 260
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