Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
HIV/AIDS IN EUROPE; Contents; List of abbreviations; Country group designations within the WHO European Region; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Providing treatment, preventing transmission: the challenge of HIV/AIDS in Europe today; 1. Twenty-. ve years of HIV/AIDS in Europe; 2. Empowering people living with HIV in Europe: manifesto, mantra or mirage?; 3. Illicit drug policies and their impact on the HIV epidemic in Europe; 4. Injecting drug use, harm reduction and HIV/AIDS; 5. Silence still = death: 25 years of HIV/AIDS in prisons |
Summary |
In Europe today, HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care are needed more than ever. HIV incidence steady in western and central Europe, and dramatically increasing in eastern Europe remains a major challenge to public health in the 21st century. With more than two million people living with HIV/AIDS in the WHO European Region, no country has been spared. This book tells the story of HIV/AIDS in Europe from a broad variety of perspectives: biomedical, social, cultural, economic and political. The authors are leading experts from across the Region and include both the infected and the affected |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment -- Europe
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AIDS (Disease) -- Europe -- Prevention
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HIV infections -- Treatment -- Europe
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HIV infections -- Europe -- Prevention
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AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention
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AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment
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HIV infections -- Prevention
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HIV infections -- Treatment
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Europe
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Donoghoe, Martin C
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Lazarus, Jeffrey V
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Matic, Srdan
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ISBN |
9289021942 |
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9789289021944 |
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1280436328 |
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9781280436321 |
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9789289022842 |
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9289022841 |
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