The AIDS Pandemic

by Mayer; Pizer

• ISBN13: 9780124652712
• ISBN10: 0124652719
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-29
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS has, and continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines it touches. Novel perspectives are provided by a unique panel of internationally recognised experts who cover the unprecedented impact onf AIDS on culture, demographics and politics around the world, including how it affected the worlds' economy, health sciences, epidemiology and public health. This important far- reaching analysis uses the lessons learned from a wide array of disciplines to help us understand the current status and evolution of the pandemic, as it continues to evolve. * Unique and timely presentation of new theories and perspectives * Concentrates on the changes that have taken place in a broad array of related disciplines * Provides key contextual information, for those new to the field or at interface areas between disciplines * Includes an international focus on evolving African and Asian experiences * Focuses on the current strategies for developing vaccines and microbicides * Outlines harm reduction and prevention programs * Explores issues related to delivery of life-saving AIDS medications in resource-constrained environments

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
Kenneth H Mayer
About the Editors	xvii
Introduction	1	(12)
Chris Beyrer
Virology	13	(23)
Phyllis J Kanki
Myron E Essex
Immunology in the Era of HIV/AIDS	36	(22)
Deborah J Anderson
Quantitative Science	58	(32)
James D Neaton
The Public Health Response to HIV/AIDS: What Have We Learned?	90	(20)
Mitchell H Katz
AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention and Control	110	(27)
Jeffrey D Klausner
HIV Treatment Meets Prevention: Antiretroviral Therapy as Prophylaxis	137	(25)
Myron S Cohen
Mina C Hosseinipour
Challenges in Developing HIV Vaccines	162	(28)
Laurence Peiperl
Susan Buchbinder
Microbicides	190	(46)
Polly F Harrison
Trisha L Lamphear
AIDS Behavioral Prevention: Unprecedented Progress and Emerging Challenges	236	(25)
Willo Pequegnat
The Evolution of Comprehensive AIDS Clinical Care	261	(25)
Kenneth H Mayer
Sreekanth K Chaguturu
The Ever-changing Face of AIDS: Implications for Patient Care	286	(21)
Jennifer Furin
David Walton
Paul Farmer
Economics	307	(17)
Samuel A Bozzette
Expanding Global Access to ARVs: The Challenges of Prices and Patents	324	(27)
Michael R Reich
Priya Bery
The African Experience	351	(23)
Salim S Abdool Karim
Asia: Health Meets Human Rights	374	(24)
Chris Beyrer
N Kumarasamy
H F Pizer
How HIV/AIDS Changed Gay Life in America: And What Others Can Learn from Our Experience	398	(26)
John-Manuel Andriote
Drug Use	424	(25)
Patricia Case
Steffanie A Strathdee
Management of HIV/AIDS in Correctional Settings	449	(39)
Frederick L Altice
Sandra A Springer
Medical Ethics and the Law	488	(23)
Zita Lazzarini
Jonathan E Von Kohorn
Index	511