Nevirapine And The Quest To End Pediatric Aids

Author : Rebecca J. Anderson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781476613840

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Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS by Rebecca J. Anderson Pdf

In 1999, investigators announced that a single dose of nevirapine, a new antiviral drug, could stop the spread of the AIDS virus from infected mothers to their newborn babies. It was a discovery that "changed the face of AIDS globally" but it came at a high price, after years of scientific research, political conflict, social unrest and the loss of many thousands of lives. This book is the historical account of pediatric AIDS from the first reported cases in the early 1980s to the first effective treatments in the 1990s and then to the prevention of HIV infections altogether. It also includes the firsthand accounts and experiences of children infected with HIV, their families and the physicians who treated them, as well as the scientists who sought to understand the virus, discovered nevirapine's unique properties, and worked tirelessly to get it to the patients who needed it.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9291734799

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Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic 2006 by World Health Organization Pdf

This flagship report presents the considered views on the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). It includes analysis of all the aspects of the epidemic, from the spread of HIV, to treatments, to the availability of resources. It also provides country-by-country figures on its extent.

Author : Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : MSU:31293028477440

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AIDS in Africa by Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Pdf

This report presents three hypothetical case studies for how the AIDS epidemic in Africa could evolve over the next 20 years based on policy decisions taken today by African leaders and the rest of the world; and considers the factors likely to drive the future responses of African countries and the international community. The scenarios draw on the age-old tradition of story-telling, rather than using data projections, to explore the wider context of the AIDS epidemic, reflecting the complexity of the subject matter.

Author : Joan Kaufman,Arthur Kleinman,Anthony Saich
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123417128

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African Journal of AIDS Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Justin Amery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780199567966

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Children's Palliative Care in Africa by Justin Amery Pdf

Childen's palliative care has developed rapidly as a discipline, as health care professionals recognize that the principles of adult palliative care may not always be applicable to children at the end of life. The unique needs of dying children are particularly evident across Africa, where the scale of the problem is overwhelming, and the figures so enormous that they are barely comprehensible: over 400,000 children in Africa died from AIDS in 2003, and out of the 166,000 children a year diagnosed with cancer, 85% of these are in the developing world. Despite the enormous need, provision of children's palliative care in Africa is almost non-existent, with very few health workers trained and confident to provide care for dying children. The challenges of providing palliative care in this setting are different to those in more developed countries, contending with the shortage of physical and human resources in addition to the vast scope of the care needed. Written by a group with wide experience of caring for dying children in Africa, this book provides practical, realistic guidance by improving access to, and delivery of, palliative care in this demanding setting. It looks at the themes common to palliative care--including communication, assessment, symptom management, psychosocial issues, ethical dilemmas, end of life care, and tips for the professional on compassion and conservation of energy--but always retains the focus on the particular needs of the health care professional in Africa. While containing some theory, the emphasis is on practical action throughout the book. Children's Palliative Care in Africa provides health care professionals working in Africa, and other resource-poor settings, with the confidence, knowledge, and capacity to improve care for the terminally ill child in constrained and demanding environments.

Author : Andrew Dawes,Rachel Bray,Amelia Van der Merwe
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015074271787

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Monitoring Child Well-being by Andrew Dawes,Rachel Bray,Amelia Van der Merwe Pdf

Taking a rights-based approach, this comprehensive study develops a conceptual framework and a definitive set of holistic indicators for monitoring the well-being of children in South Africa. Taking cues from the child-rights focus of the South African constitution, it is made clear that it is not just the state of the children that is important to measure, but also the contexts within which the children grow and develop. Providing practical tools for policy makers to assess the effectiveness of child-based policies and interventions, this practical work addresses a wide range of domains--child poverty, HIV and AIDS, education, mental health and disability, abuse and neglect, the justice system, and children affected by the worst forms of labor.

Author : World Health Organization,World Health Organization. Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development,World Health Organization. Department of HIV/AIDS,Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS,United Nations Fund for Population Activities,UNICEF
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9241599537

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Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010 by World Health Organization,World Health Organization. Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development,World Health Organization. Department of HIV/AIDS,Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS,United Nations Fund for Population Activities,UNICEF Pdf

Significant programmatic experience and research evidence regarding HIV and infant feeding have accumulated since WHO's recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV were last revised in 2006. In particular, evidence has been reported that antiretroviral (ARV) interventions to either the HIV-infected mother or HIV-exposed infant can significantly reduce the risk of postnatal transmission of HIV through breastfeeding. This evidence has major implications for how women living with HIV might feed their infants, and how health workers should counsel these mothers. Together, breastfeeding and ARV intervention have the potential to significantly improve infants' chances of surviving while remaining HIV uninfected. While the 2010 recommendations are generally consistent with the previous guidance, they recognize the important impact of ARVs during the breastfeeding period, and recommend that national authorities in each country decide which infant feeding practice, i.e. breastfeeding with an ARV intervention to reduce transmission or avoidance of all breastfeeding, should be promoted and supported by their Maternal and Child Health services. This differs from the previous recommendations in which health workers were expected to individually counsel all HIV-infected mothers about the various infant feeding options, and it was then for mothers to decide between them. Where national authorities promote breastfeeding and ARVs, mothers known to be HIV-infected are now recommended to breastfeed their infants until at least 12 months of age. The recommendation that replacement feeding should not be used unless it is acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable and safe (AFASS) remains, but the acronym is replaced by more common, everyday language and terms. Recognizing that ARVs will not be rolled out everywhere immediately, guidance is given on what to do in their absence.

Author : Daniel A. Leone
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0737727462

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Responding to the AIDS Epidemic by Daniel A. Leone Pdf

A discussion of issues relating to AIDS.

Author : World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher : WIPO
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789280523089

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Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation - Intersections between Public Health, Intellectual Property and Trade by World Intellectual Property Organization Pdf

This study has emerged from an ongoing program of trilateral cooperation between WHO, WTO and WIPO. It responds to an increasing demand, particularly in developing countries, for strengthened capacity for informed policy-making in areas of intersection between health, trade and IP, focusing on access to and innovation of medicines and other medical technologies.

Author : Jennifer Klot,Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789231041587

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The Fourth Wave by Jennifer Klot,Vinh-Kim Nguyen Pdf

Author : Stephanie Nolen
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780307366542

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28 by Stephanie Nolen Pdf

From one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists – comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It is essential reading for our times. In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail’s Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face to the crisis created by HIV-AIDS in Africa. She has achieved, in this amazing book, something extraordinary: she writes with a power, understanding and simplicity that makes us listen, makes us understand and care. Through riveting anecdotal stories – one for each of the million people living with HIV-AIDS in Africa – Nolen explores the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in magnitude. It is a calamity that is unfolding just a 747-flight away, and one that will take the lives of these 28 million without the help of massive, immediate intervention on an unprecedented scale. 28 is a timely, transformative, thoroughly accessible book that shows us definitively why we continue to ignore the growth of HIV-AIDS in Africa only at our peril and at an intolerable moral cost. 28’s stories are much more than a record of the suffering and loss in 28 emblematic lives. Here we meet women and men fighting vigorously on the frontlines of disease: Tigist Haile Michael, a smart, shy 14-year-old Ethiopian orphan fending for herself and her baby brother on the slum streets of Addis Ababa; Alice Kadzanja, an HIV-positive nurse in Malawi, where one in six adults has the virus, and where the average adult’s life expectancy is 36; and Zackie Achmat, the hero of South Africa’s politically fragmented battle against HIV-AIDS. 28 also tells us how the virus works, spreads and, ultimately, kills. It explains the connection of HIV-AIDS to conflict, famine and the collapse of states; shows us how easily treatment works for those lucky enough to get it and details the struggles of those who fight to stay alive with little support. It makes vivid the strong, desperate people doing all they can, and maintaining courage, dignity and hope against insurmountable odds. It is – in its humanity, beauty and sorrow – a call to action for all who read it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780444638502

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The Neurology of HIV Infection by Anonim Pdf

The Neurology of HIV Infection covers all aspects of nervous system involvement and pathology in HIV-infected individuals. Specialists in this field cover epidemiology, global aspects, pathology and pathogenesis of nervous system disease in HIV-infection. All complications, including the pathology caused by HIV itself and all opportunistic infections of the nervous system are reviewed in detail. Both central nervous and peripheral nervous system complications, including neuropathies and myopathies, are discussed. Key chapters on global developments, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders, IRIS, stroke and neuro-aids in children complete this volume. Covers all aspects of nervous system involvement and pathology in HIV-infected individuals Includes the pathology caused by HIV and all opportunistic infections of the nervous system Presents key chapters that focus on global developments, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders, IRIS, stroke and neuro-aids in children

Author : Thomas J. Hope,Mario Stevenson,Douglas Richman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 1461496101

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Encyclopedia of AIDS by Thomas J. Hope,Mario Stevenson,Douglas Richman Pdf

Author : Toby Freedman
Publisher : CSHL Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biotechnology
ISBN : 9780879697259

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Career Opportunities in Biotechnology and Drug Development by Toby Freedman Pdf

An essential guide for students in the life sciences, established researchers, and career counselors, this resource features discussions of job security, future trends, and potential career paths. Even those already working in the industry will find helpful information on how to take advantage of opportunities within their own companies and elsewhere.