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The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America

Author : Shawn C. Smallman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146960678X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America written by Shawn C. Smallman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the more than 40 million people around the world currently living with HIV/AIDS, two million live in Latin America and the Caribbean. In an engaging chronicle illuminated by his travels in the region, Shawn Smallman shows how the varying histories and cultures of the nations of Latin America have influenced the course of the pandemic. He demonstrates that a disease spread in an intimate manner is profoundly shaped by impersonal forces. In Latin America, Smallman explains, the AIDS pandemic has fractured into a series of subepidemics, driven by different factors in each country. Examining cultural issues and public policies at the country, regional, and global levels, he discusses why HIV has had such a heavy impact on Honduras, for instance, while leaving the neighboring state of Nicaragua relatively untouched, and why Latin America as a whole has kept infection rates lower than other global regions, such as Africa and Asia. Smallman draws on the most recent scientific research as well as his own interviews with AIDS educators, gay leaders, drug traffickers, crack addicts, transvestites, and doctors in Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico. Highlighting the realities of gender, race, sexuality, poverty, politics, and international relations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Smallman brings a fresh perspective to understanding the cultures of the region as well as the global AIDS crisis.

AIDS in Latin America

Author : Tim Frasca
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403969446
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book AIDS in Latin America written by Tim Frasca and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on the shocking reality of AIDS in Latin America.

HIV/AIDS in Latin American Countries

Author : Anabela Garcia-Abreu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821353646
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (536 download)

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Book Synopsis HIV/AIDS in Latin American Countries by : Anabela Garcia-Abreu

Download or read book HIV/AIDS in Latin American Countries written by Anabela Garcia-Abreu and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The report evaluates current national surveillance capacity and assesses national responses of the health sector to the epidemic on a country-by-country basis. Importantly, the report identifies key areas in which specific interventions are urgently needed and the challenges ahead.

HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

HIV/AIDS in Latin American Countries

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book HIV/AIDS in Latin American Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Disease in the History of Modern Latin America

Author : Diego Armus
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822384345
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Disease in the History of Modern Latin America written by Diego Armus and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine through insightful essays about how disease—whether it be cholera or aids, leprosy or mental illness—was experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times from the late nineteenth century to the present. Based on the idea that the meanings of sickness—and health—are contestable and subject to controversy, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America displays the richness of an interdisciplinary approach to social and cultural history. Examining diseases in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, the contributors explore the production of scientific knowledge, literary metaphors for illness, domestic public health efforts, and initiatives shaped by the agendas of international agencies. They also analyze the connections between ideas of sexuality, disease, nation, and modernity; the instrumental role of certain illnesses in state-building processes; welfare efforts sponsored by the state and led by the medical professions; and the boundaries between individual and state responsibilities regarding sickness and health. Diego Armus’s introduction contextualizes the essays within the history of medicine, the history of public health, and the sociocultural history of disease. Contributors. Diego Armus, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Kathleen Elaine Bliss, Ann S. Blum, Marilia Coutinho, Marcus Cueto, Patrick Larvie, Gabriela Nouzeilles, Diana Obregón, Nancy Lays Stepan, Ann Zulawski

Viral Voyages

Author : L. Meruane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137394994
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Viral Voyages written by L. Meruane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.

Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America

Author : Matthew B. Flynn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317565606
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America written by Matthew B. Flynn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil has occupied a central role in the access to medicines movement, especially with respect to drugs used to treat those with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). How and why Brazil succeeded in overcoming powerful political and economic interests, both at home and abroad, to roll-out and sustain treatment represents an intellectual puzzle. In this book, Matthew Flynn traces the numerous challenges Brazil faced in its efforts to provide essential medicines to all of its citizens. Using dependency theory, state theory, and moral underpinnings of markets, Flynn delves deeper into the salient factors contributing to Brazil’s successes and weaknesses, including control over technology, creation of political alliances, and instrumental use of normative frameworks and effectively explains the ability of countries to fulfill the prescription drug needs of its population versus the interests and operations of the global pharmaceutical industry Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America is one of the only books to provide an in-depth account of the challenges that a developing country, like Brazil, faces to fulfill public health objectives amidst increasing global economic integration and new international trade agreements. Scholars interested in public health issues, HIV/AIDS, and human rights, but also to social scientists interested in Latin America and international political economy will find this an original and thought provoking read.

NGO Perspectives on Access to HIV-related Drugs in 13 Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Author : Jorge Beloqui
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book NGO Perspectives on Access to HIV-related Drugs in 13 Latin American and Caribbean Countries written by Jorge Beloqui and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hiv/Aids in Latin America - the Feminization of Hiv/Aids

Author : Nora Demattio
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656108463
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Hiv/Aids in Latin America - the Feminization of Hiv/Aids written by Nora Demattio and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Health Science, grade: 1.00, University of Vienna (Institut der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie an der Universität Wien), language: English, abstract: Around the world, in the last decades since the appearing of HIV/AIDS, the prevalence of women infected by HIV is raising faster than the prevalence of men. Although this development had been recognized soon, it was not posible to stop it. On the basis of these facts, I will have a closer look at the situation of women in Latin America concerning the disease and I want to review the "feminization" of HIV/AIDS. Furthermore, I will give an overview of two Gender constructing concepts of Latin America, Machismo and Marianismo, which I seek to challenge in its impacts on (the development of) programs and organsisations concerning the epidemic, and following, in women.

The Role of Faith-based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America

Author : Kathryn Pitkin Derose
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833049534
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Role of Faith-based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America written by Kathryn Pitkin Derose and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the involvement of churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The authors describe the range of FBO activities and discuss the advantages and challenges to such involvement and possible ways that FBOs can enhance their efforts, both independently and in collaboration with other organizations, such as government ministries of health.

Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture

Author : Gustavo Subero
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317066006
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture written by Gustavo Subero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenology, to understand the ways in which HIV positive individuals make sense of their own lives, and of the ways in which the rest of society sees them. Drawing on a variety of cultural texts from cinema, television, photography and literature, the author considers the manner in which contemporary cultural forms have shaped a body of public opinion in response to the social and cultural impact of HIV/AIDS, re-interpreting the condition in the light of advances in treatment. With attention to both the temporality and spatiality of production, this book examines whether heterosexual and homosexual, and masculine and feminine bodies are narrativised in the same manner, considering the question of whether representations foster discrimination of any kind. The book also asks whether representations across Latin America are homogenous or varied according to national, social or cultural context, and explores the commonalities between the representations of HIV/AIDS in Hispano-America and the Caribbean and other global narratives. A detailed study of the various representations of HIV/AIDS and the construction of public opinion, this book will appeal to scholars of cultural, media and film studies, the sociology of health, the body and illness, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Thirty Years of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Argentina

Author : Fernando Lavadenz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464805970
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Thirty Years of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Argentina written by Fernando Lavadenz and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1992 creation of the National HIV/AIDS Program was a fundamental step for Argentina to reach the second lowest burden of HIV/AIDS in South America. From 2000 to 2010, Argentina further reduced the already low HIV/AIDS incidence of 15.9 per 100,000 by 25 percent and reduced the burden by 21 percent. This study analyzes the national and inter-provincial burden of disease, the demographics of new HIV cases, the demand and supply-sides of service delivery, and conducts a cost-benefit analysis of the National HIV/AIDS Program over the last decade. Though the National HIV/AIDS Program was an instrumental step towards these achievements, this book also examines other key programmatic innovations that have been essential to the country's success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, including the introduction of universal free antiretroviral treatment; a comprehensive legal framework for sexual and reproductive rights; the introduction of incentives and results-based financing in the HIV/AIDS program; electronic monitoring of supplies and medicines; and implementation of an electronic clinical governance system for improving the quality of care and patient follow-up, among others. Despite high costs of the Program, this study found the Argentine National HIV/AIDS Program is cost-beneficial. From 2000 to 2010, 4,379 potential lives were saved. Nonetheless, the fight against this epidemic poses continuous challenges, including a stubbornly high number of new infections among young men who have sex with men, inequalities in HIV/AIDS rates between provinces, insufficient coverage of HIV diagnostic testing, insufficient HIV testing of tuberculosis patients, low expenditure on HIV prevention, high comparative cost of antiretroviral treatment, and questions regarding the long-term financial sustainability of the AIDS program, considering the increasing number of patients in treatment. 'Thirty Years of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Argentina: An Assessment of the National Health Response' delves into the combination of factors that make Argentina a success story in combating HIV/AIDS.

Human Virology in Latin America

Author : Juan Ernesto Ludert
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319545671
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Human Virology in Latin America written by Juan Ernesto Ludert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of some of the most remarkable contributions made by scientists currently working in Latin America to the understanding of virus biology, the pathogenesis of virus-related diseases, virus epidemiology, vaccine trials and antivirals development. In addition to recognizing the many fine virologists working in Latin America, Human Virology in Latin America also discusses both the state-of-the-art research and the current challenges that are being faced in the region, in hopes of inspiring young scientists worldwide to become eminent virologists.

HIV/AIDS and Work

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
ISBN 13 : 9221158241
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book HIV/AIDS and Work written by International Labour Office and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is estimated that by the end of 2003 there were just under 38 million people living with HIV/AIDS, with all but two million of these people of working age. This report, prepared by the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, sets out global estimates of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the labour force and the working age population in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and in more developed regions. Issues discussed include: the implications for the private and public sectors, on agriculture and concerns for food insecurity and on the informal economy; on women and children; policy implications and examples of responses to the problem in a variety of workplace settings; provision of antiretroviral therapy in conjunction with HIV prevention in the workplace and the potential for expanded access to workplace-based treatment.

The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil

Author : Amy Nunn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781441918765
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil written by Amy Nunn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil’s public policy response to the AIDS epidemic preceded those of many developing countries. During my tenure as President, in 1996, Brazil adopted a law guaranteeing free and universal access to AIDS treatment for all people living with HIV/AIDS. Brazil became the first developing country to provide publicly-financed AIDS treatment for all people living with HIV/AIDS. We now have one of the world’s most successful AIDS programs that is considered a model for other dev- oping countries. Today, 185,000 people receive life-saving AIDS cocktails in Brazil, and thousands of lives have been saved. But this was not an easy battle. There were many challenges along the way. Twenty years ago, Brazil’s achie- ments today might have seemed impossible. During the 1980s, in Brazil, as elsewhere, there was overwhelming stigma associated with AIDS; people living with HIV often lost their jobs and died quickly before the advent of life-saving antiretroviral drugs. Brazil’s AIDS movement was extraordinarily important in promoting progressive AIDS policies; associations of people living with HIV were the first to denounce pervasive AIDS-related discri- nation and called public attention to the importance of AIDS. Activists protested in the streets for over a decade, engaged the media, and framed AIDS as a human rights issue.

Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 6)

Author : King K. Holmes
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464805253
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 6) written by King K. Holmes and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death globally, particularly among children and young adults. The spread of new pathogens and the threat of antimicrobial resistance pose particular challenges in combating these diseases. Major Infectious Diseases identifies feasible, cost-effective packages of interventions and strategies across delivery platforms to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, malaria, adult febrile illness, viral hepatitis, and neglected tropical diseases. The volume emphasizes the need to effectively address emerging antimicrobial resistance, strengthen health systems, and increase access to care. The attainable goals are to reduce incidence, develop innovative approaches, and optimize existing tools in resource-constrained settings.