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Absence Of Mass Media In Fighting Hiv Aids In Remote Rural Population
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Book Synopsis Absence of Mass Media in Fighting Hiv/Aids in Remote Rural Population by : Shukrani Mbirigenda
Download or read book Absence of Mass Media in Fighting Hiv/Aids in Remote Rural Population written by Shukrani Mbirigenda and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass media is claimed to be the most effective tool in raising awareness on HIV/AIDS among the public both in urban and rural areas in Tanzania. However, in Tanzania mass media remains expensive and inaccessible to most of the remote rural populations. In addition, most of the print media are based on a commercial basis and due to poor circulation of money; mass media is not easily accessible in rural areas. Though there had been an increase in the number of radio stations in the country, those reaching rural areas are still few and with poor and sporadic signals. More so, a radio set is still a luxury to most rural households. This study investigated the following areas: how much do rural populations know about HIV/AIDS from mass media; what gaps are there in their knowledge/awareness, the reasons for the existing gaps and what can be done to bridge the gaps. The study used both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and found that there were gaps in the HIV/AIDS awareness/knowledge in the remote rural population that need to be urgently addressed.
Book Synopsis HIV/AIDS in India by : Sunita Manian
Download or read book HIV/AIDS in India written by Sunita Manian and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: chronicle of a disease foretold -- 2 Non-heteronormative desire: then and now -- 3 My life is nothing but a question mark: stories of sexual minorities -- 4 One foot in the river, one foot in the mud: the perils of living a double-life -- 5 Changing status of non-conjugal heterosexuality in India -- 6 Take our truth to the world: challenges and aspirations of sex-workers -- 7 There was no wrongdoing on my part, sister: shame and stigma among women living with HIV/AIDS -- 8 Should we not live a life? HIV positive women's tales of hope and survival -- 9 The way forward: advocacy and change -- Index
Book Synopsis Learning from SARS by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Learning from SARS written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in late 2002 and 2003 challenged the global public health community to confront a novel epidemic that spread rapidly from its origins in southern China until it had reached more than 25 other countries within a matter of months. In addition to the number of patients infected with the SARS virus, the disease had profound economic and political repercussions in many of the affected regions. Recent reports of isolated new SARS cases and a fear that the disease could reemerge and spread have put public health officials on high alert for any indications of possible new outbreaks. This report examines the response to SARS by public health systems in individual countries, the biology of the SARS coronavirus and related coronaviruses in animals, the economic and political fallout of the SARS epidemic, quarantine law and other public health measures that apply to combating infectious diseases, and the role of international organizations and scientific cooperation in halting the spread of SARS. The report provides an illuminating survey of findings from the epidemic, along with an assessment of what might be needed in order to contain any future outbreaks of SARS or other emerging infections.
Book Synopsis Assessment of Development Results - Mozambique by : United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Download or read book Assessment of Development Results - Mozambique written by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the findings of the Assessment of Development Results (ADR), the Mozambique country evaluation conducted by the Evaluation Office (EO) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2004. ADRs are independent forward-looking evaluations that assess the strategic positioning of UNDP’s support and its contributions to a country’s development in a given period of time. The emphasis is on generating lessons to promote organizational learning to enhance UNDP’s performance and increase its contribution to development effectiveness.Since the 1992 peace accords that ended the civil war, Mozambique has achieved remarkable success on a number of fronts. It has successfully navigated the transition from peace to war and sustained political stability while transforming its political system to a multi-party democracy. Mozambique has also been able to maintain steady economic growth rates averaging 6 percent to 7 percent a year over the past several years. These are encouraging results. But Mozambique is still a least developing country (LDC) that faces considerable economic and human development challenges, and the role and contributions of external partners remain important.
Download or read book AIDS in Africa written by Max Essex and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reference book addresses the unique challenges facing many African nations as poor infrastructure and economics continue to obstruct access to advanced treatments and AIDS care training. It takes into account the context of settings with limited resources. Information on how to best utilize existing resources and prioritize scaling-up of infrastructure is a critical aspect of this book for those working in HIV/AIDS-related fields in Africa.
Download or read book Daily Graphic written by Ransford Tetteh and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape by : Ravindra Kumar Vemula
Download or read book Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape written by Ravindra Kumar Vemula and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information relates to traditional belief systems and local philosophies; the implications for health communicators; how certain forms of silence are produced when media articulates and problematizes only a few health issues and sidelines others; and much more. The book brings together current research and discussions on the three areas of policy, practices and theoretical perspectives related to health communication approaches in developing countries, presenting well-researched and documented essays that will prove helpful for academic and scholarly inquiry in this area.
Book Synopsis Prescribing HIV Prevention by : Nicola Bulled
Download or read book Prescribing HIV Prevention written by Nicola Bulled and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical health communication scholars point out that the acceptance of HIV risk prevention methods are bound inside inequitable structures of power and knowledge. Nicola Bulled’s in-depth ethnographic account of how these messages are selected, transmitted and reacted to by young adults in the AIDS-torn population of Lesotho in southern Africa provides a crucial example of the importance of a culture-centered approach to health communication. She shows the clash between traditional western perceptions of how increased knowledge will increase compliance with western ideas of prevention, and mixed messages offered by local religious, educational, and media institutions. Bulled also demonstrates how structural and geographical forces prevent the delivery and acceptance of health messages, and how local communities shape their own knowledge of health, disease and illness. This volume will be of interest to medical anthropologists and sociologists, to those in health communication, and to researchers working on issues related to HIV.
Book Synopsis The State of the World's Children 2006 by : United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Download or read book The State of the World's Children 2006 written by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This years report highlights the needs of the millions of children who have not been the beneficiaries of past gains, the ones who are excluded or invisible. As the world presses ahead with the strategies, initiatives and financing needed to realize the vision of the Millennium Declaration, it must not allow these children to be forgotten.
Book Synopsis The State of the World's Children 2006 by : UNICEF.
Download or read book The State of the World's Children 2006 written by UNICEF. and published by UNICEF. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2006 edition of UNICEF's annual report focuses on the millions of children who are most in need of access to essential education, health and protection services, but who are also the hardest to reach and often overlooked by current development programmes. These include children living in the poorest countries and most deprived communities within countries, children who face discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity or disability, children caught up in armed conflicts or affected by HIV/AIDS, children who lack a formal identity and who suffer from abuse and exploitation. The report examines the factors which result in their exclusion from current child development programmes and services, and highlights the policy options and actions required to address these challenges, in order to ensure all children benefit from the progress being made to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Topics discussed include: income disparities and child survival, the marginalisation of Roma communities and their children, disability issues, children and HIV/AIDS, children living on the streets, early marriages, child labour, child protection and child rights.
Book Synopsis Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardiovascular disease (CVD), once thought to be confined primarily to industrialized nations, has emerged as a major health threat in developing countries. Cardiovascular disease now accounts for nearly 30 percent of deaths in low and middle income countries each year, and is accompanied by significant economic repercussions. Yet most governments, global health institutions, and development agencies have largely overlooked CVD as they have invested in health in developing countries. Recognizing the gap between the compelling evidence of the global CVD burden and the investment needed to prevent and control CVD, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) turned to the IOM for advice on how to catalyze change. In this report, the IOM recommends that the NHLBI, development agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and governments work toward two essential goals: creating environments that promote heart healthy lifestyle choices and help reduce the risk of chronic diseases, and building public health infrastructure and health systems with the capacity to implement programs that will effectively detect and reduce risk and manage CVD. To meet these goals, the IOM recommends several steps, including improving cooperation and collaboration; implementing effective and feasible strategies; and informing efforts through research and health surveillance. Without better efforts to promote cardiovascular health, global health as a whole will be undermined.
Book Synopsis Water Management in 2020 and Beyond by : Asit K. Biswas
Download or read book Water Management in 2020 and Beyond written by Asit K. Biswas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to authoritatively assess how water management will be shaped by 2020 due to forces within and outside the water sector. It offers a pragmatic assessment arrived at by experts from different parts of the world and different fields.
Book Synopsis UNFPA Intercountry Workshop on Networking and Partnership Between Young People and Governments on HIV/AIDS Prevention for East and South-East Asian Countries, Bangkok, 18-22 March 2002 by :
Download or read book UNFPA Intercountry Workshop on Networking and Partnership Between Young People and Governments on HIV/AIDS Prevention for East and South-East Asian Countries, Bangkok, 18-22 March 2002 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Social Impact of AIDS in the United States by : National Research Council
Download or read book The Social Impact of AIDS in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe's "Black Death" contributed to the rise of nation states, mercantile economies, and even the Reformation. Will the AIDS epidemic have similar dramatic effects on the social and political landscape of the twenty-first century? This readable volume looks at the impact of AIDS since its emergence and suggests its effects in the next decade, when a million or more Americans will likely die of the disease. The Social Impact of AIDS in the United States addresses some of the most sensitive and controversial issues in the public debate over AIDS. This landmark book explores how AIDS has affected fundamental policies and practices in our major institutions, examining: How America's major religious organizations have dealt with sometimes conflicting values: the imperative of care for the sick versus traditional views of homosexuality and drug use. Hotly debated public health measures, such as HIV antibody testing and screening, tracing of sexual contacts, and quarantine. The potential risk of HIV infection to and from health care workers. How AIDS activists have brought about major change in the way new drugs are brought to the marketplace. The impact of AIDS on community-based organizations, from volunteers caring for individuals to the highly political ACT-UP organization. Coping with HIV infection in prisons. Two case studies shed light on HIV and the family relationship. One reports on some efforts to gain legal recognition for nonmarital relationships, and the other examines foster care programs for newborns with the HIV virus. A case study of New York City details how selected institutions interact to give what may be a picture of AIDS in the future. This clear and comprehensive presentation will be of interest to anyone concerned about AIDS and its impact on the country: health professionals, sociologists, psychologists, advocates for at-risk populations, and interested individuals.
Book Synopsis Consolidated Guideline on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living with HIV by : World Health Organization
Download or read book Consolidated Guideline on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living with HIV written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he starting point for this guideline is the point at which a woman has learnt that she is living with HIV and it therefore covers key issues for providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights-related services and support for women living with HIV. As women living with HIV face unique challenges and human rights violations related to their sexuality and reproduction within their families and communities as well as from the health-care institutions where they seek care particular emphasis is placed on the creation of an enabling environment to support more effective health interventions and better health outcomes. This guideline is meant to help countries to more effectively and efficiently plan develop and monitor programmes and services that promote gender equality and human rights and hence are more acceptable and appropriate for women living with HIV taking into account the national and local epidemiological context. It discusses implementation issues that health interventions and service delivery must address to achieve gender equality and support human rights.
Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309452961 Total Pages :583 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Communities in Action by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Book Synopsis Country Reports on Human Rights Practices by :
Download or read book Country Reports on Human Rights Practices written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 2028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
