Description: Product InformationAIDS is the most devastating communicable disease in history, and poor countries have been most severely impacted by the pandemic. Since the mid-1990s, the use of antiretroviral drug therapies has dramatically extended life expectancy and improved life quality for those with HIV/AIDS who can afford the costly treatments. Yet even as it raises new hope, this medical advance has intensified ethical and political questions about AIDS. Antiretroviral use by those with money and access throws the contrasting outcomes among AIDS sufferers throughout the world into high relief. It has also revealed what many people with AIDS have known all along: the disease is not only propagated by the virus, but by racism, entrenched poverty, structural inequality, and the legacy of colonial domination and exploitation.Global AIDS: Myths and Facts aims to present the facts about HIV/AIDS, and empower people for informed, active participation in the global struggle against this plague. To mobilize the energy, commitment, and resources required for the fight, Irwin and Millen tackle 10 destructive myths that hamper implementation of effective and equitable anti-HIV/AIDS programs.World leaders like Kofi Annan have announced treatment and prevention initiatives that are opening new possibilities. But the authors argue that only sustained political pressure from the grassroots'forging links across national boundaries; professional and social categories; and racial, ethnic, and religious identities'will halt the pandemic's spread.Product IdentifiersPublisherSouth End PressISBN-100896086739ISBN-139780896086739eBay Product ID (ePID)2271837Product Key FeaturesAuthorJoyce Millen, Dorothy Fallows, Alexander IrwinFormatTrade PaperbackLanguageEnglishTopicPublic Health, Sociology / General, Diseases / Aids & Hiv, Disease & Health IssuesPublication Year2003GenreHealth & Fitness, Medical, Social ScienceNumber of Pages175 PagesDimensionsItem Length8.5in.Item Height0.3in.Item Width5.3in.Item Weight12.5 OzAdditional Product FeaturesNumber of Volumes1 Vol.Lc Classification NumberRa643.8.I79 2003Copyright Date2003Target AudienceTradeLccn2002-042666IllustratedYes
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Book Title: Global AIDS - Myths and Facts : Tools for Fighting
Author: Joyce Millen, Dorothy Fallows, Alexander Irwin
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publication Year: 2003
Number of Pages: 175 Pages
