HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 Years On
HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 Years On

Author: Poul Rohleder

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1441903062

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Much has happened since the first appearance of AIDS in 1981: it has been identified, studied, and occasionally denied. The virus has shifted host populations and spread globally. Medicine, the social sciences, and world governments have joined forces to combat and prevent the disease. And South Africa has emerged as ground zero for the pandemic. The editors of HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 Years On present the South African crisis as a template for addressing the myriad issues surrounding the epidemic worldwide, as the book brings together a widely scattered body of literature, analyzes psychosocial and sexual aspects contributing to HIV transmission and prevention, and delves into complex intersections of race, gender, class, and politics. Including largely overlooked populations and issues (e.g., prisoners, persons with disabilities, stigma), as well as challenges shaping future research and policy, the contributors approach their topics with rare depth, meticulous research, carefully drawn conclusions, and profound compassion. Among the topics covered: The relationship between HIV and poverty, starting from the question, "Which is the determinant and which is the consequence?" Epidemiology of HIV among women and men: concepts of femininity and masculinity, and gender inequities as they affect HIV risk; gender-specific prevention and intervention strategies. The impact of AIDS on infants and young children: risk and protective factors; care of children by HIV-positive mothers; HIV-infected children. Current prevention and treatment projects, including local-level responses, community-based work, and VCT (voluntary counseling and testing) programs. New directions: promoting circumcision, vaccine trials, "positive prevention." South Africa’s history of AIDS denialism. The urgent lessons in this book apply both globally and locally, making HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 Years On uniquely instructive and useful for professionals working in HIV/AIDS and global public health.

The First Decade of Safe and Effective HIV Vaccines
The First Decade of Safe and Effective HIV Vaccines

Author: Jeremiah O. A. Abalaka

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781607411437

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Since 1984, the world has been spending, on the average, over $700 million annually in a futile effort at developing safe and effective HIV vaccines. During this period, over 25 million people have perished from the HIV/AIDS scourge, 90 per cent of them in the poor developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The socio-economic wreck caused by the HIV/AIDS pandemic is mind-boggling. The years of wayward search for safe and effective HIV vaccines since 1984 should have shown the world that the recipe for HIV vaccines that they have been following religiously without success should be appraised. That has not been done up till today. Instead, the entire world has persisted with the unscientific, unreasonable, bizarre, and ridiculous dogmas and established knowledge. Globally, the world has deceitfully been made to believe that these vaccines, if ever they would be developed, are at least a decade away. The author expects this book to be of immense interest to all mankind especially international Institutions/Agencies like the UN, UNAIDS and WHO, Governments and their Health Ministries/Departments, the world's major or leading Pharmaceutical Companies, Universities/Research Institutes, leading media houses such as the CNN, the BBC, VOA, AFP and the CBS, virologists, HIV vaccine researchers and developers, medical practitioners and students, medical laboratory scientists and students, registered and student nurses, epidemiologists, ethicists, HIV-infected persons and all those that are involved or interested in HIV vaccine research and development.

Ethics and Human Rights in HIV-related Clinical Trials in Africa with Specific Reference to Informed Consent in Preventive HIV Vaccine Efficacy Trials in South Africa
Ethics and Human Rights in HIV-related Clinical Trials in Africa with Specific Reference to Informed Consent in Preventive HIV Vaccine Efficacy Trials in South Africa

Author: Annelize Nienaber

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 1174

ISBN-13:

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This thesis examines the regulation of HIV-related clinical research in Africa, with special emphasis on preventive HIV vaccine efficacy trails in South Africa. The discussion centres on aspects of the South African economic, social and political context, which increase not only certain communities' vulnerability to HIV infection, thereby accelerating the spread of the disease but also those communities' vulnerability to exploitation and abuse during clinical research. Human rights law is suggested as a viable alternate model to bioethical regulation to protect participants in HIV-related clinical trials. It is demonstrated that, in certain instances human rights law has important advantages over bioethics, not only because it has the force of law, but also because it positions the research participant within a specific social context It is proposed that a normative model derived from human rights' principles adds value to the bioethical debate in the context of clinical research in South Africa and the rest of the world. The thesis concludes that in order to make clinical research more responsive to circumstance, bioethics should be inspired by a broader social, economic and political perspective, such as is provided by a human rights-based analysis. The thesis recommends that bioethics and human rights law, rather than being seen as different systems, should be unified into a single system of protection under the constitution and the Bill of Rights. In order to do this, legislation that integrates ethical guidelines and human rights law needs to be drafted to give effect to the constitutional guarantee in section 12(2)(c). At the international level, the adoption of a convention which integrates human rights law and ethical guidelines is proposed.

The River
The River

Author: Edward Hooper

Publisher: Back Bay

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1118

ISBN-13: 9780316371377

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A British medical journalist offers a meticulously researched look at HIV and its potential source, discussing the history of this lethal epidemic, analyzing a number of theories concerning its origins, and investigating current scientific inquiries into HIV, AIDS, and the search for a cure. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Risk Communication
Risk Communication

Author: M. Granger Morgan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0521802237

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The procedure uses approaches from risk and decision analysis to identity the most relevant information; it also uses approaches from psychology and communication theory to ensure that its message is understood. This book is written in nontechnical terms, designed to make the approach feasible for anyone willing to try it. It is illustrated with successful communications, on a variety of topics."--Jacket.