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Description: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Description: An updated edition of Jacques Pépin's acclaimed account of the events that transformed a chimpanzee virus into a global pandemic.
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Description: By examining the early outbreaks in San Francisco, Cochrane unfolds the "creation" of AIDS in one geographic location and then traces how and why major claims about the transmission of HIV were made, extrapolated and then disseminated to the rest of the world - all important factors in understanding this disease.
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Description: This book assesses the AIDS "service industry" that has emerged since the mid-1980's. Informed by deconstruction and current critical theory, Patton analyzes the discourses of AIDS and how they shape, control and delay public policy that determines health strategies dealing with the epidemic. The book includes a committed and passionate critique of the use of "scientific knowledge" in the face of what is a predominant cultural metaphor of the late 20th century.
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Description: 100 Questions & Answers about HIV and AIDS provides answers to the most common questions asked by patients with HIV and AIDS, their partners, and their family members. Written by an internationally recognized HIV expert from Johns Hopkins University with commentary by two HIV-positive patients, this is an invaluable resource for people with HIV infection, or for those who care about them. It also includes useful information on prevention and testing for HIV-negative readers.--COVER.
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Description: HIV, which is the virus that causes AIDS, infects nearly 200,000 people a year. AIDS refers to the most advanced stages of the HIV virus. This crucial edition provides thorough and balanced information on the topic of AIDS. Readers will be prompted to think critically about it and how this illness impacts their peers and community?.? Charts and detailed illustrations share important information that is easily used for report writing and research.
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Description: There is no controversy, whatsoever, over the enormity of problems in relation to HIV and AIDS on the social, clinical, public health and on the economic frontiers. Globally, since the first AIDS case was detected in USA in 1981, the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues its expansion across the globe with approx. 16000 new infections a day. The most rapidly spreading virulent virus infection and its relate...
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Description: The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a disease of the body's immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS is characterised by the death of CD4 cells (an important part of the body's immune system), which leaves the body vulnerable to life-threatening conditions such as infections and cancers. This book explores how this deadly virus has affected America and high-risk children, and presents reports on different forms of funding provided by the international and United States governments, and the fluctuating rates of AIDS cases.
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