Product Description: It was the only water for miles in a vast, sun-blasted desert where water meant survival. So Logan Cates naturally headed for Papago Wells. But he wasn’t the only one. Fleeing the fierce Churupati and his Apache warriors, other travelers had come there too...read more

Product Description: In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-related complications―among them the singer Michael Callen and the poet Essex Hemphill...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Errata Notice: Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy 2016: Print Edition Content Notices (shipped prior to 5/11/16) Antibacterial Activity Spectra (Table 4, p78): A column shift caused activity data to be displayed incorrectly for Linezolid, Tedizolid, Rifampin (combination), TMP-SMX, Fosfomycin and Metronidazole vs...read more

Product Description: In December 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this case study is to describe how PMTCT services were delivered in our program and to highlight the achievements and challenges of the collaborative efforts to improve PMTCT services in Yunnan over the past eight years...read more

Product Description: Mongolia is a country with few reported HIV cases. From 1 January to 30 April 2013, 137 HIV cases were cumulatively reported in the country with a prevalence of less than 0.1% among the general population; it was estimated that 674 persons were living with HIV at that time...read more

Product Description: When the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV); was clinically noticed in 1981, in the United States. The news of such a dreaded virus took people around the world like a thunder storm. The fear of the fact that there was no cure and no one knew the capacity of which the virus could assume a dual nature of a living and non-living thing and the reality that the virus could be passed on was very worrisome then...read more

Product Description: Matthias Gerschwitz, a German author and marketing freelancer living in Berlin, is HIV positive. The virus was detected in 1994, but likely transmitted in 1992. In 2009, he wrote a book about his life with the virus, which now is available in English, too...read more

Product Description: The disproportional loss of individuals to HIV/AIDS in their most productive years raises concerns over the welfare of surviving members of affected families and communities. One consequence of the rapid increase in adult mortality is the rise in the proportion of children who are orphaned...read more

Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research, two hundred fifty interviews, and over three hundred youth love letters, author Shanti Parikh uses lively vignettes to provide a rare window into young people’s heterosexual desires and practices in Uganda. In chapters entitled “Unbreak my heart,” “I miss you like a desert missing rain,” and “You’re just playing with my head,” she invites readers into the world of secret longings, disappointments, and anxieties of young Ugandans as they grapple with everyday difficulties while creatively imagining romantic futures and possibilities.Parikh also examines the unintended consequences of Uganda’s aggressive HIV campaigns that thrust sexuality and anxieties about it into the public sphere. In a context of economic precarity and generational tension that constantly complicates young people’s notions of consumption-based romance, communities experience the dilemmas of protecting and policing young people from reputational and health dangers of sexual activity. “They arrested me for loving a school girl” is the title of a chapter on controlling delinquent daughters and punishing defiant boyfriends for attempting to undermine patriarchal authority by asserting their adolescent romantic agency. Sex education programs struggle between risk and pleasure amidst morally charged debates among international donors and community elders, transforming the youthful female body into a platform for public critique and concern. The many sides of this research constitute an eloquently executed critical anthropology of intervention.

Product Description: This review was requested by the Department of Health of the Philippines and the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) and conducted with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)...read more

Product Description: This external review of the health sector response to HIV in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic was held from 28 July to 8 August 2014. The review was requested by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and supported by the World Health Organization (WHO)...read more