Omar Bagasra, Donald Gene Pace

A Guide to AIDS

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Pocket Guide to AIDS is succinct review of HIV/AIDS from a human-interest perspective. Chapters focus on some of the common patterns and prevention of HIV transmission and debunks misconceptions about HIV and AIDS. Brief descriptions the human immune system and epidemiology of HIV are included. The cultural component of disease, treatment and living with AIDS is central to much of this Pocket Guide intended to synthesize, explain and de-mystify HIV and AIDS.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781138373532
• ISBN-10: 1138373532
• Artikelnr.: 55104129

Autorenporträt

Donald G. Pace is Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Claflin University. Omar Bagasra is Professor of Biology and Director of South Carolina Center for Biotechnology at Claflin University.

Inhaltsangabe

HIV/AIDS is Easy to Prevent. A Preventable Disease. Clean Needles in the
Developing World. Mosquitos Do Not Spread HIV. Small Personal Choices and
Big Results. The Root of the Problem. A Tale of Incomplete Hopes. To Fund
or Not to Fund? That is Not the Whole Question. The Human Immune System:
Multi-level Protection. Strain 1, Group M and the Epidemiology of HIV. What
To Do and Not To Do? As Simple as ABC or ABCC? Alcohol and AIDS. HIV in the
Age of the Desaperacidas. The Military-AIDS Complex: AIDS and International
Security. Counting the Costs: More Deadly Than Military Conflict. "This is
Not Your Land. Go Away AIDS": Music and Orphans. Cultural Differences and
AIDS Awareness. AIDS and the Hispanic Community. Culture and AIDS
Transmission: The Example of India. Indian Traditions, Women and HIV.
Confession and Complaint: Bad, Worse and Worst. The Language of AIDS. These
Died of AIDS. Etcetera: These are the Houses That AIDS Built. AIDS
Personified.