This moving book examines the HIV epidemic in the UK through the lives of a range of individuals who worked tirelessly, but often quietly, to make a difference to those living and dying with HIV....Loe edasi...
This book brings together the knowledge and understanding of viruses from origin to recent advancements. It covers different aspects like classification, structure, emerging viruses, cancer-causing viruses, and vaccines. It emphasizes the basic biol...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2024, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003507635)
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the discourse on health in India, examining governance, policies, programmes, and the involvement of the state and civil society in ensuring health for all and especially for people living with HIV/AIDS...Loe edasi...
In highlighting how a Public Health Approach (PHA) has been successfully used in developing countries to provide HIV/AIDS patients with antiretroviral therapy (ART), this important book provides a template for how the PHA can be implemented to treat...Loe edasi...
The Healing Power of Community offers a diverse cross section of interdisciplinary, and depth-psychological perspectives in support of using mutual aid approaches, in all levels of group and community practice, as a remedy for individualism, social...Loe edasi...
Matthew Jones provides the first full-length perspective on Western musical responses to the AIDS epidemic and explores how English-language popular music was used, composed, and performed in the context of the North American crisis....Loe edasi...
First published in 1997, this title provided an insight into a wide range of adolescent issues which were rarely compiled in one volume at the time. In this text a series of contributions have been compiled to explore adolescent issues ranging from...Loe edasi...
Viruses and Society is geared towards professionals and students in college-level introductory biology courses devoted to understanding viruses, vaccines, and their global impact. The beginning of the book introduces cells, DNA, and viruses themselv...Loe edasi...
This book explores the various psychosocial, sociocultural, and contextual factors that affect the sexual health of Black students who attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and how this environment can develop strategies to im...Loe edasi...
Nutritional management is integral to comprehensive HIV care and treatment. Improved nutritional status and weight gain can increase recovery and strength of individuals living with HIV/AIDS, improve dietary diversity and caloric intake, and improve...Loe edasi...
Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa examines how the interplay between national state dynamics in Africa and the global political arena has shaped the global AIDS response, and in this context develops a framework for analysing pu...Loe edasi...
This book considers the change in rhetoric surrounding AIDS from one of crisis to that of ending AIDS. Exploring what it means to end AIDS, the author considers the tensions generated between the individual and the state in terms of notions such as...Loe edasi...
This book examines the social construction of sexual health in India through an analysis of HIV and AIDS messages. The broad objective of the chapters is to trace the growth and evolution of the concept of sexual health from a health communication p...Loe edasi...
Perspectives on Behavioural Interventions in Palliative and End-of-Life Care is an accessible resource that collates and explores interventions that can be used to address a wide range of behavioural, psychological, social, and spiritual issues that...Loe edasi...
This book explores the normalization of HIV and AIDS, reflecting upon the intended and unintended consequences of the multifarious AIDS industry....Loe edasi...
Imparts information for those touched by deaths and losses of HIV/AIDS. This work provides guidance, support and coping skills, along with discussions of death language; AIDS grief; death in the workplace; and cultural and spiritual issues around de...Loe edasi...
This book pays attention to lived experiences of sex, drugs and the scientific practices that make these experiences intelligible. Through a series of empirically and historically detailed case studies, the book examines how new technologies and sci...Loe edasi...
This volume addresses the question of childrens understanding of AIDS, not simply in terms of their dependence but as active participants in the interpretation of their social worlds....Loe edasi...
Music at the Edge invites the reader to experience a complete music therapy journey through the words and music of the client, and the therapists reflections....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2016, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118777374)
Patients suffering from HIV/AIDS often experience chronic pain due to the many diseases and infections they pick up as a result of a weakened immune system....Loe edasi...
Sari: Critical Cultural Studies in Global Health Communication
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2014, Kirjastus: Left Coast Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9781315421971)
Nicola Bulleds in-depth ethnographic account of how HIV prevention messages are selected, transmitted, and reacted to by young adults in the AIDS-torn population of Lesotho provides a crucial example of the importance of a culture-centered approach...Loe edasi...
Sari: WPA Series in Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Mar-2014, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118339503)
Mental health and HIV/AIDS are closely interlinked. Mental disorders, including substance-use disorders, are associated with increased risk of HIV infection and affect adherence to and efficacy of antiretroviral treatments....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Dec-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199944972)
The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience takes readers on the real-life journeys of gay men who were infected with HIV as young men and have survived to enter middle age. The book examines the tumultuous life paths of these men and th...Loe edasi...
By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, this book investigates the impact of the epidemic on peoples lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, politic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199764303)
This is a timely and urgently needed effort by the best researchers and interventionists in the field today. Latino-serving agencies and professionals, as well as the growing number of Latino-focused HIV prevention researchers, graduate students, an...Loe edasi...
