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Title Global HIV/AIDS politics, policy and activism : persistent challenges and emerging issues / Raymond A. Smith, editor
Published Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2013]
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Contents Volume 1. Politics and government. introduction: politics, policy, and activism in the fourth decade of AIDS -- Part 1: The global and transnational politics of HIV prevention and treatment. The troubled path to HIV/AIDS universal treatment access: snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? -- Sustainability in the post-PEPFAR Period: examples from Botswana, Ethiopia, and South Africa -- The new deal for the global AIDS response: evidence and human rights-based legal environments: the Global Commission on HIV and the Law -- The politics of global health diplomacy: conceptual, theoretical, and empirical lessons from the United States, Southeast Asia, and Latin America -- The "dirty work" of public health: politics, policy, prejudice, and human rights in a time of HIV/AIDS -- The subtle politics of AIDS: values, bias, and persistent errors in HIV prevention -- Part 2: Country- and regional-level politics of HIV prevention and treatment. The HIV response in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: an epidemic and its dilemmas -- The diagonal approach: programming to combat HIV while strengthening primary health care systems in Africa -- Funding HIV prevention, treatment, and care in the United States: the limits of politics in responding to a deadly epidemic -- A national HIV prevention strategy for the United States: troubling echoes of earlier VD control programs -- Understanding Brazil's strategic response to HIV/AIDS: history, politics, and international relations -- More are testing positive, but is everything negative? Russia and the HIV epidemic -- HIV prevention in the West African context: barriers and facilitators in Ghana -- A people-centered approach to the links among HIV/AIDS, conflicts, and security in Colombia
Volume 2: Policy and policymaking. Introduction: politics, policy, and activism in the fourth decade of AIDS -- Part 1: Global and transnational policy debates over HIV prevention and treatment. The shifting sands of intellectual property law and policy: implications for the future of HIV treatment and public health -- Medical circumcision and the politics of no alternative: why the public health imperative scored a victory against HIV/AIDS -- Count us in: the need for more comprehensive global data on HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, and knowledge among LGBT populations -- Promoting HIV prevention and research with men who have sex with men (MSM) through U.S. foreign policy -- HIV/AIDS-related stigma as the root of HIV criminalization and bias against sex workers -- Part 2: Country- and regional-level policy debates over HIV prevention and treatment. Public engagement and policymaking for caregiving children of the HIV epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa -- The intersection of disability and HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa -- A Chinese-style AIDS exceptionalist paradigm: reflection on China's recent HIV/AIDS policy reform -- The medicalization of HIV/AIDS policy: the case of India -- HIV/AIDS and alcohol risks in Cambodia: confronting challenges and policymaking through research-guided actions -- "You know what a bad person you are?" HIV, abortion, and reproductive health care for women in South Africa -- Constraints on the potential effectiveness of HIV/AIDS early treatment policy in South Africa -- HIV prevention fatigue and HIV complacency: ongoing challenges in advanced industrialized nations -- HIV prevention policies at the intersection of gender, race, and class in the United States
Volume 3: Activism and community mobilization. Introduction: politics, policy, and activism in the fourth decade of AIDS. -- Part 1: Global and transnational HIV/AIDS activism and community mobilization. Social movement responses to HIV/AIDS in the United States and globally: intersecting chronological, strategic, and health movement frames -- AIDS treatment advocacy in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa: diverse actors, strategies, and sectors -- Discord and harmony in biomedical HIV prevention technologies: advancements through advocacy -- Building "HIV/AIDS-competent communities" in resource-poor settings: creating contexts that enable effective community mobilization -- Citizen scientists and activist researchers: building and sustaining HIV prevention research advocacy in the "era of evidence" -- Contesting conspiracies: science, activism, and the ongoing battle against AIDS denialism -- Part 2: Country- and regional-level HIV/AIDS activism and community mobilization. The challenges of forming associations of people living with HIV in low-prevalence and high-stigma contexts: the case of Sudan and Lebanon -- How to exit an epidemic: philanthrocapitalism, community mobilization, and the domestication of sexual dissidence in South India -- Mobilizing men and boys in HIV Prevention and treatment: the Sonke Gender Justice experience in South Africa -- Crisis and chronicity: how treatment is changing activism in South Africa and beyond -- AIDS mobilization in Zambia: agency versus structural challenges -- From dissidence to partnership and back to confrontation again? the current predicament of Brazilian HIV/AIDS activism -- The NGO-ization of HIV/AIDS activism in Mexico: not so scandalous after all? -- Children, HIV, stigma, and activism in the UK: treading the line between innocence and vulnerability, vice and virtue -- "we are not criminals": activists addressing the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure in canada -- Community mobilization, community planning, and community-based research for HIV prevention in the United States -- Diversifying AIDS activism: lessons learned from ACT UP/Philadelphia
Summary "An international team of specialists in politics, policy, and activism provide an indispensible guide to the persistent challenges and emerging issues posed by the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, now in its fourth decade"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from resource home page (ebrary, viewed October 20, 2015). based on print version record
Subject AIDS (Disease)
HIV infections.
Public health -- International cooperation.
Medical policy.
International cooperation.
Politics, Practical.
Public health.
Health Policy
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control
HIV Infections -- prevention & control
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
International Cooperation
Politics
Public Health
politics.
public health.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Public health
Politics, Practical
Medical policy
International cooperation
AIDS (Disease)
HIV infections
Public health -- International cooperation
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, Raymond A., 1967- editor.
ISBN 9780313399466
0313399468