Learning from HIV and AIDS (Biosocial Society Symposium Series)
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This study brings together health-care professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines who seek to understand, and prevent, the transmission of HIV. The biological and social factors concerned with the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS has resulted in dedicated research from each of the disciplines and provided unique insights into the disease. By assembling their insights in one multidisciplinary volume, this book provides a more complete picture of the complex disease, and demonstrates why preventing the spread of HIV will require interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Different professional and academic disciplines have addressed the HIV/AIDS pandemic from a variety of perspectives, using different analytical approaches. By bringing these together in one volume, Learning from HIV/AIDS provides a more complete picture of this multi-faceted disease - from the biological and social factors which facilitate HIV transmission - to the powerful cultural and political forces which fuel the pandemic. Chapters from contributors working on the aetiology, treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS identify how their work has helped predict the spread of HIV and has improved the survival of those infected. Yet interventions to reduce the spread of HIV have had limited success, and few HIV-infected individuals have access to combination drug therapies. Written for students and researchers, and taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this book demonstrates that progress in developing effective and acceptable interventions can only be achieved through collaboration between the biological, medical and social sciences.
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Learning from HIV and AIDS (Biosocial Society Symposium Series)
Learning from HIV and AIDS (Biosocial Society Symposium Series),George Ellison,Melissa Parker,Catherine Campbell,Catherine Panter-Brick,Cambridge University Press,0521004705,AIDS (Disease),Congresses,Diseases - AIDS & HIV,Health & Fitness,Health Care Delivery,Health/Fitness,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Public Health,Science,Social aspects,Biological anthropology,Epidemiology & medical statistics,HIV / AIDS,Personal & public health,Science / Biology,Social & cultural anthropology
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