Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011-03-28
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0309212073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →HIV/AIDS is a catastrophe globally but nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, which in 2008 accounted for 67 percent of cases worldwide and 91 percent of new infections. The Institute of Medicine recommends that the United States and African nations move toward a strategy of shared responsibility such that these nations are empowered to take ownership of their HIV/AIDS problem and work to solve it.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1996-03-28
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0309090180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to affect all facets of life throughout the subcontinent. Deaths related to AIDS have driven down the life expectancy rate of residents in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda with far-reaching implications. This book details the current state of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what is known about the behaviors that contribute to the transmission of the HIV infection. It lays out what research is needed and what is necessary to design more effective prevention programs.
Author: John P. Hutton
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2001-07
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780756713577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where more than 2/3 of the people who are infected with HIV live. The Agency for Internat. Develop. (USAID) allocated a 54% increase in funding, from $114 mill. to $174 mill., for FY'01 to expand its HIV/AIDS efforts in sub-Saharan Africa. This report: identifies the develop. & impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in SSA & the challenges to slowing its spread; assesses the extent to which the USAID's initiatives have contributed to the fight against AIDS in SSA; & identifies the approach that the agency used to allocate increased funding & the factors that may affect the agency's ability to expand its HIV/AIDS program in SSA.
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011-04-28
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0309160189
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →HIV/AIDS is a catastrophe globally but nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, which in 2008 accounted for 67 percent of cases worldwide and 91 percent of new infections. The Institute of Medicine recommends that the United States and African nations move toward a strategy of shared responsibility such that these nations are empowered to take ownership of their HIV/AIDS problem and work to solve it.
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Publisher: UNAIDS Office
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report considers successful initiatives in relation to prevention and control activities being undertaken across the African continent in response to the challenges of HIV/AIDS. It discusses policies to close gaps in prevention and treatment, and highlights the importance of co-ordinated government responses, working in partnership with communities and business. It also looks at the role of Africa's women and young people in fighting the AIDS epidemic.
Author: Johanna Tayloe Crane
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013-09-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0801469058
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted by some of the most prestigious research universities in the world as they search for "resource-poor" hospitals in which to base their international HIV research and global health programs. In Scrambling for Africa, Johanna Tayloe Crane reveals how, in the space of merely a decade, Africa went from being a continent largely excluded from advancements in HIV medicine to an area of central concern and knowledge production within the increasingly popular field of global health science. Drawing on research conducted in the U.S. and Uganda during the mid-2000s, Crane provides a fascinating ethnographic account of the transnational flow of knowledge, politics, and research money—as well as blood samples, viruses, and drugs. She takes readers to underfunded Ugandan HIV clinics as well as to laboratories and conference rooms in wealthy American cities like San Francisco and Seattle where American and Ugandan experts struggle to forge shared knowledge about the AIDS epidemic. The resulting uncomfortable mix of preventable suffering, humanitarian sentiment, and scientific ambition shows how global health research partnerships may paradoxically benefit from the very inequalities they aspire to redress. A work of outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship, Scrambling for Africa will be of interest to audiences in anthropology, science and technology studies, African studies, and the medical humanities.