AIDS Between Science and Politics

✍ Scribed by Peter Piot; Laurence Garey

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 214
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A social, political, and human history of the epidemic, with a look at its ongoing challenges, written by a scientist, physician, and pioneering world health leader.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Translator’s Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Heterogeneous and Still-Evolving Epidemic
2. Hyperendemic HIV in Southern Africa: The Heritage of Apartheid
3. AIDS as an International Political Issue
4. A New Type of Transnational Civil Society Movement
5. The Right to Treatment
6. Combination Prevention
7. The Economics of AIDS
8. Prominence of Human Rights
9. The Long-Term View
Notes
Index

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