| Description |
x, 250 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
ABC-Clio ebook
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| Contents |
1. Introduction / Douglas A. Feldman -- 2. Behind the Wall of China: AIDS Profile, AIDS Policy / Vincent E. Gil -- 3. Public Policy, Political Activism, and AIDS in Brazil / Richard G. Parker -- 4. The Response of Nongovernmental Organizations in Latin America to HIV Infection and AIDS: A Vehicle for Grasping the Contribution NGOs Make to Health and Development /Pamela Hartigan -- 5. HIV, Immigration Policy, and Latinos/as: Public Health Safety versus Hidden Agendas / Norris G. Lang -- 6. Culture, Sexual Behavior, and Attitudes toward Condom Use among Baganda Women /Charles B. Rwabukwali, Debra A. Schumann, Janet W. McGrath, Cindie Carroll-Pankhurst, Rebecca Mukasa, Sylvia Nakayiwa, Lucy Nakyobe and Barbara Namande --7. AIDS in Ghana: Priorities and Policies / Robert W. Porter -- 8. Apartheid and the Politics of AIDS /Virginia van der Vliet -- 9. The Politics of International Health: Breastfeeding and HIV / Dana Raphael |
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10. AIDS Policy and the United States Political Economy / Michael D. Quam -- 11. Acting Up Academically: AIDS and the Politics of Disempowerment /M. E. Melody -- 12. Ethnography, Epidemiology, and Public Policy: Needle-Use Practices and HIV-1 Risk Reduction among Injecting Drug Users in the Midwest /Robert G. Carlson, Harvey A. Siegal and Russel S. Falck -- 13. AIDS Risk Behavior among Drug Injections in New York City: Critical Gaps in Prevention Policy /Michael C. Clatts, W. R. Davis, Sherry Deren, Douglas S. Goldsmith and Stephanie Tortu -- 14. Conclusion /Douglas A. Feldman |
| Summary |
An estimated 17 million people are infected with HIV today, and it is estimated that in Africa alone there will be at least 70 million people infected in the next 25 years. This global pandemic has already had a profound impact economically and socially in terms of expensive research, care centers, and immeasurable loss of many of the world's most talented people. Sexual relations, health care of non-infected individuals, family relations, and other social institutions have been significantly marked by this elusive and to date life-threatening phenomenon. Topics range from breastfeeding to con |
| Analysis |
AIDS Policies Of Government |
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AIDS |
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AIDS prevention |
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International comparisons |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
Chiefly previously unpublished papers presented at the Mar. 1991 Society for Applied Anthropology Meeting in Charleston, S.C., and at the Nov. 1990 American Anthropological Association Meeting in New Orleans, La |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
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Health Policy.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
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Health Policy.
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| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Feldman, Douglas A.
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American Anthropological Association. Meeting (1990 : New Orleans, La.)
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Society for Applied Anthropology. Annual Meeting (1991 : Charleston, S.C.)
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| LC no. |
94002850 |
| ISBN |
0897892828 (alk. paper) |
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089789412X (paperback) |
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