Hiv Aids In China

Author : Zunyou Wu,Yu Wang,Roger Detels,Marc Bulterys,Jennifer M. McGoogan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811385186

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HIV/AIDS in China by Zunyou Wu,Yu Wang,Roger Detels,Marc Bulterys,Jennifer M. McGoogan Pdf

With HIV becoming the leading cause of infectious-disease mortality in Mainland China, this book focuses on tackling HIV/AIDS in the face of rapid political and economic change in China. Featuring contributions by over a dozen leading figures in the field, this book is the go-to text for any student or reader interested in how national and international organizations’ are attempting to control this epidemic. The book includes chapters on the epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of HIV, as well as several chapters that discuss in detail specific provincial- and national-level programs to control and treat HIV. It chronicles the Chinese government’s amazing about-face, as it replaced underfunded, non-evidence based policy decisions with successful, science-based approaches to disease control and prevention, including the adoption of once controversial needle-exchange programs and the establishment of a national HIV/AIDS data registry. It measures the success of national policy decisions, the implementation of treatment policies, and discusses the difficulty of accessing high-risk communities, including people who inject drugs, sex workers, and men who have sex with men – groups not easy to reach, study, engage in prevention programs, or treatment, for fear of stigmatization and loss of social status. Further, it documents the spread of HIV to other provinces, and the tragedy that befell repeat plasma donors in Henan and other poor provinces, where reused or improperly sterilized lab equipment caused some villages to have epidemic-level incidence rates. This book represents a positive contribution to the field of AIDS research, making vital, new information available to an interested readership.

Author : Zunyou Wu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811037467

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HIV/AIDS in China by Zunyou Wu Pdf

This book presents the history of HIV/AIDS in China, which over the last three decades has been a gripping tale of exclusion and fear, and then, by turns, of involuntary tragedy, cautious experimentation and finally vigorous response. It discusses the occurrence, development and epidemic studies and also introduces China’s policies and measures to conquer this epidemic, offering readers valuable insights into China’s approach to prevention in this field.

Author : Joan Kaufman,Arthur Kleinman,Anthony Saich
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171200

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AIDS and Social Policy in China by Joan Kaufman,Arthur Kleinman,Anthony Saich Pdf

This first English language book on China’s AIDS epidemic provides a picture of the current state of the epidemic, a social science and interdisciplinary perspective on gaps in the response, and a blueprint for needed actions. The book’s editors are leading experts on China’s AIDS epidemic, health and political systems. Contributors comprise some of the world’s leading Chinese and international researchers, policy-makers, and civil society representatives working on HIV/AIDS in China. The multi-disciplinary work provides a critically needed social science perspective and analysis of the epidemic, offers a framework for thinking about the spread of HIV in China, and includes suggestions for an effective policy response that also addresses social determinants.

Author : Dylan Sutherland,Jennifer Y.J. Hsu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136594717

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HIV/AIDS in China - The Economic and Social Determinants by Dylan Sutherland,Jennifer Y.J. Hsu Pdf

"Providing a up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the most critical aspects of the growth of HIV/AIDS in China, this book moves beyond biomedical explanations to link the epidemic to broader issues of economic and social development."--Publisher's description

Author : Joseph Tucker,Dudley L. Poston, Jr.,Qiang Ren,Baochang Gu,Xiaoying Zheng,Stephanie Wang,Chris Russell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402099007

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Gender Policy and HIV in China by Joseph Tucker,Dudley L. Poston, Jr.,Qiang Ren,Baochang Gu,Xiaoying Zheng,Stephanie Wang,Chris Russell Pdf

China’s concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat. Social factors relating to gender and gender inequality exacerbate the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI) in China. A better understanding of the proximate social determinants of HIV related to gender will be crucial to effectively curbing HIV and other STIs in China. Aspects of China’s governance - including administrative procedures, the developing legal system, social institutions, and the public health infrastructure – are instrumental in shaping strategies and responses to HIV. International studies suggest that women who are more economically and socially vulnerable may also have a greater risk of HIV infection, yet few initiatives have focused on discrete areas where achievable and sustainable gender policy measures could be linked to the public health response. This study presents perspectives ranging from criminology to social psychology to better understand how gender perspectives can inform HIV policy in the context of China.

Author : Jing Jun,Heather Worth
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742240060

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HIV in China by Jing Jun,Heather Worth Pdf

The result of collaboration between the University of New South Wales and the Tsinghua University in Beijing, this unique chronicle maps some of the most important social, political, and cultural characteristics of the HIV epidemic in China. Demonstrating that the epidemic was propelled by three main economic drivers--the blood trade, the drug trade, and the sex trade--this informative compilation of essays uncovers the hidden truths about the spread of HIV and analyzes its social impacts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781938134814

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Stigma by Anonim Pdf

"Based on two and a half years of fieldwork in China, this book examines the cultural genesis and social mechanisms of stigma related to mental illness and HIV/AIDS in China. It also explores the bio-politics on stigma through detailed description of social exclusion experienced by people suffering from mental illness or HIV/AIDS and by systematic comparison on stigma between the two illnesses in the Chinese context. Through the comparison, this book describes the micro socio-dynamic process of stigmatization in the local Chinese context, highlights the identity transformation accompanying the illness trajectory the patients and their families have lived through, and ultimately connects Chinese society and its community-centered social value system and institutional arrangement to the stigma associated with mental illness and HIV/AIDS."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Guomei Xia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 7119036025

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HIV/AIDS in China by Guomei Xia Pdf

HIV/AIDS is an international problem that includes China. The effect of this disease are presented in four chapters, ranging from the current HIV/AIDS status, the Government's response and strategies,HIV/AIDS' policy and methods of containing the disease.

Author : United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050285209

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HIV/AIDS in China by United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China Pdf

Author : United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : MINN:31951D02062385J

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China's Mounting HIV/AIDS Crisis by United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China Pdf

Contains testimony and prepared statements by Amarmath Bhat, Yanhai Wan, Kevin Robert Frost, and Phillip Nieburg.

Author : Jinmei Meng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137362865

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On the Decriminalization of Sex Work in China by Jinmei Meng Pdf

This study argues that the decriminalization of sex work in China can contribute to HIV prevention and human rights protection. The argument is supported by six key concepts: the universality of human rights, rights-based approaches to HIV, sex work as work, risk environment for HIV transmission, decriminalization of sex work as a preferred model for HIV prevention, and rights-based responses to HIV and sex work. Three research methods are used, including research methods from law, social science, and public health. Recommendations are provided to reform Chinese law and HIV policy.

Author : Johanna Hood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136838965

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HIV / AIDS, Health and the Media in China by Johanna Hood Pdf

HIV/AIDS is an increasingly serious problem in China, with an increasing number of new cases every year. As a result, HIV organizations have boomed, with both state and non-governmental organisations responding to the threat with campaigns to increase public awareness of the disease, utilising the media as the primary tool to reshape citizens’ understandings and views of HIV/AIDS. This book explores how HIV/AIDS is portrayed in China’s media. It argues that, despite increasing education campaigns, media coverage and social and academic openness towards HIV/AIDS, many Chinese of the majority Han ethnic group regard infection as a distant possibility, believing themselves to be immune and infection a problem only for certain non-Han ethnic groups with perceived lower moral standards, in particular black Africans. The book explores how HIV/AIDS is reported, analysing the language used in constructing and encoding the health narrative, its subjects, and ideas about the disease. It demonstrates how China’s media frequently employs negative events to present the most extreme possibilities of poverty, danger, disasters and disease, with black Africa portrayed as an antiquated, distant and socioculturally and politically backward place, uniquely unsuitable for the containment of disease, in contrast with the progressive, scientifically sophisticated and morally upstanding Chinese. It argues that this discourse has had the effect of distancing many Chinese from the perceived possibility of infection, thus compromising the effectiveness of public health campaigns on HIV/AIDs. It suggests that the key to combating the spread of the disease lies in challenging the racialised narratives through which the disease is portrayed in China’s media, rather than simply by aiming to educate greater numbers of people.

Author : Sandra Teresa Hyde
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520939486

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Eating Spring Rice by Sandra Teresa Hyde Pdf

Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. Hyde combines innovative public health research with in-depth ethnography on the ways minorities and sex workers were marked as the principle carriers of HIV, often despite evidence to the contrary. Hyde approaches HIV/AIDS as a study of the conceptualization and the circulation of a disease across boundaries that requires different kinds of anthropological thinking and methods. She focuses on "everyday AIDS practices" to examine the links between the material and the discursive representations of HIV/AIDS. This book illustrates how representatives of the Chinese government singled out a former kingdom of Thailand, Sipsongpanna, and its indigenous ethnic group, the Tai-Lüe, as carriers of HIV due to a history of prejudice and stigma, and to the geography of the borderlands. Hyde poses questions about the cultural politics of epidemics, state-society relations, Han and non-Han ethnic dynamics, and the rise of an AIDS public health bureaucracy in the post-reform era.

Author : Shelley Torcetti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429560491

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Living in the Shadows of China's HIV/AIDS Epidemics by Shelley Torcetti Pdf

Identifying the existing challenges and shortfalls of China's current HIV/AIDS programming, this book provides an understanding of the history of HIV/AIDS in China, comparing government responses to global best practice in prevention and treatment. Considering three key populations in China, namely, female sex workers, people who inject drugs and floating migrants, Living in the Shadows of China's HIV/AIDS Epidemics highlights the effects of high mobility and marginalisation on the spread of HIV in China. It is argued that these groups often suffer from stigmatisation and a lack of human security, resulting in sub-optimal outcomes for HIV/AIDS intervention and prevention efforts and the reinforcement of high-risk behaviours, further contributing to the transmission of the virus to the general population. In adding to the emerging body of literature, this book further elucidates the myriad of challenges posed by HIV/AIDS epidemics, allowing sustained engagement and a fresh insight into how governments might respond to the needs of individuals living with HIV/AIDS, both in China and globally. Including case studies which give voice to research participants in a rich and engaging way, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Asian Studies, International Relations and Political Science, as well as those engaged in epidemiological studies in the Health Sciences.

Author : Elaine Jeffreys,Gang Su
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781351707077

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Governing HIV in China by Elaine Jeffreys,Gang Su Pdf

HIV and AIDS have long been problematized in the People’s Republic of China as objects of governance in political frameworks and institutions. The state’s attitudes towards health programs have, nevertheless, changed significantly during the 21st century. Pilot programs at the beginning of the century, which focused on underground sex workers, have now developed into the roll-out of a nationwide program, with supportive legislation and broadcast media publicity. This book therefore examines China’s evolving AIDS response, providing an up to date investigation into the positions and practices of the state. It explains the origins, rationales and implementation of initiatives focused on female sex workers and explores the extension of such initiatives to include other populations identified as key to ending the AIDS epidemic, especially homosexual men and rural-to-urban migrant labourers. Ultimately, through an analysis of the different approaches to the governance of commercial sex and sexual health, Governing HIV in China concludes by considering the challenges raised by China’s commitment to the United Nations’ vision of ending AIDS as a global health threat by 2030. This book will be useful for students and scholars of Social Policy, Public Health Policy and Chinese Studies.