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In dispatches written from around the world, d'Adesky reports on the global effort to provide life-saving medicines and care to 40 million people living with HIV and AIDS in resource-poor countries, the great majority in sub-Saharan Africa. She analyzes the obstacles to providing universal access to antiretroviral drugs whose cost has been out of reach to millions, and exposes the underlying and often competing agendas of donor and recipient governments,...

The CDC has made a revision in their philosophy underlying recommended prevention techniques to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. The new approach focuses on "positive prevention", that is, prevention among people living with HIV/AIDS. This important distinction has resulted in the need to reexamine the behaviors around HIV transmission and the approaches to prevention when working within this diverse population. Positive Prevention is a timely volume...

"Tools to help you protect the health of your HIV-infected patients and prevent transmission through retention in care, ART adherence, and safer sexual behaviors."

Infectious disease has the terrifying power to disrupt everyday life on a global scale, overwhelming public and private resources and bringing trade and transportation to a halt. In today's world, it's easier than ever to move people, animals, and materials around the planet, but the same advances that make modern infrastructure so efficient have made epidemics and even pandemics nearly inevitable. So what can -- and must -- we do in order to protect...

--First ever compilation on the topic of HIV prevention with U.S. Latinos --19 chapters provide unprecedented breadth and depth on subgroups and situations unique to the Latino experience --Presents a structural-environmental model of HIV risk and prevention. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Latinos now comprise 16% of the general population as they continue to be one of the fastest-growing populations in the United States. However, according to...

Discusses AIDS and how to use condoms to prevent its spread, and explains in simple, direct language how to choose and use them.

"Disease and democracy is the first comparative analysis of how Western democratic nations have coped with AIDS. Peter Baldwin's exploration of divergent approaches to the epidemic in the United States and several European nations is a springboard for a wide-ranging and sophisticated historical analysis of public health practices and policies. In addition to his comprehensive presentation of information on approaches to AIDS. Baldwin's authoritative...