AIDS Between Science and Politics.
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AIDS Between Science and Politics.
Yazar:
Piot, Peter.
ISBN:
9780231538770
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1 online resource (153 pages)
İçerik:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Heterogeneous and Still-Evolving Epidemic -- Rapid global spread -- How are HIV numbers estimated? -- Generalized and concentrated epidemics -- The diversification of epidemics -- Risks and vulnerability -- Change and continuity -- 2. Hyperendemic HIV in Southern Africa: The Heritage of Apartheid -- Tragedy in the new South Africa -- The vulnerability of women -- The drivers of hyperendemic HIV -- The heritage of apartheid -- The politics of denial -- Progress and challenges -- 3. AIDS as an International Political Issue -- The first responses -- Conceptualization of AIDS -- The awakening of the multilateral system and the international response -- 2000/2001: the tipping point -- Lessons for other health problems -- 4. A New Type of Transnational Civil Society Movement -- The fundamental role of civil society in the AIDS response -- AIDS and globalization -- 5. The Right to Treatment -- The prehistory of AIDS treatment -- 1996 to 2000: letting them die -- Demonstrating the feasibility of antiretroviral treatment in sub-Saharan Africa -- The first price reductions -- 2000 to 2001: the turning point -- Toward universal access -- The long-term stakes of antiretroviral treatment -- 6. Combination Prevention -- Global, but not universal, declines in HIV incidence -- Measuring the impact of HIV prevention -- Combination prevention -- Focus on high-risk situations -- Antiretroviral treatment as prevention -- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as prevention -- Male circumcision as prevention -- Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV -- HIV prevention in injecting drug users -- The politics of HIV prevention -- Structural determinants and sexual violence -- A renaissance in HIV prevention -- 7. The Economics of AIDS.
Economic drivers of the AIDS epidemic -- The impact of AIDS on the economy -- 8. Prominence of Human Rights -- The third epidemic -- The big scare -- Discrimination -- How to counter discrimination -- 9. The Long-Term View -- Revisiting the prevention strategy -- Notes -- Index.
Özet:
Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only disruptive to the health of millions worldwide but also fractured international relations, global access to new technologies, and public health policies in nations across the globe. As he struggled to get ahead of the disease, Piot found science does little good when it operates independently of politics and economics, and politics is worthless if it rejects scientific evidence and respect for human rights. Piot describes how the epidemic altered global attitudes toward sexuality, the character of the doctor-patient relationship, the influence of civil society in international relations, and traditional partisan divides. AIDS thrust health into national and international politics where, he argues, it rightly belongs. The global reaction to AIDS over the past decade is the positive result of this partnership, showing what can be acheved when science, politics, and policy converge on the ground. Yet it remains a fragile achievement, and Piot warns against complacency and the consequences of reduced investments. He refuses to accept a world in which high levels of HIV infection are the norm. Instead, he explains how to continue to reduce the incidence of the disease to minute levels through both prevention and treatment, until a vaccine is discovered.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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