Author: Robyn Pharoah
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
AIDS, Orphans, Crime, and Instability
Author: Robyn Pharoah
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A Socio-Criminological Analysis of the HIV Epidemic
Author: Bruno Meini
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1648890792
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
In the world of the 21st century, epidemics are common biological and social occurrences, with HIV perhaps emphasising this better than any other disease. Medical scientific research has undoubtedly made significant steps forward; meanwhile, the social research field is still in its initial stages, with many awaiting an equally auspicious response. A Socio-Criminological Analysis of the HIV Epidemic offers a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted socio-criminological dimensions of the HIV epidemic and positively contributes to the ongoing sociological debate on infectious diseases. The author intends to create an independent epistemology of HIV to explicate the social forces that impact and determine the course and experience of the epidemic, while also seeking to reframe the popular discourse on HIV to reflect sociological conceptualisations. This latter step leads to the identification of the concept of social interaction as an appropriate tool for highlighting the complex social nature of this virus. The unprecedented challenge posed by the epidemic for the international community calls for global cooperation aimed at evaluating the diverse aspects of the issues that many actors in this tragic drama must deal with. Given its wide-reaching international appeal, this book is also recommended for those involved or interested in global health issues and infectious diseases. It will be of particular interest to medical researchers, health workers, social scientists, social workers, policymakers, humanitarian workers, HIV and human rights activists, and graduate students.
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1648890792
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
In the world of the 21st century, epidemics are common biological and social occurrences, with HIV perhaps emphasising this better than any other disease. Medical scientific research has undoubtedly made significant steps forward; meanwhile, the social research field is still in its initial stages, with many awaiting an equally auspicious response. A Socio-Criminological Analysis of the HIV Epidemic offers a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted socio-criminological dimensions of the HIV epidemic and positively contributes to the ongoing sociological debate on infectious diseases. The author intends to create an independent epistemology of HIV to explicate the social forces that impact and determine the course and experience of the epidemic, while also seeking to reframe the popular discourse on HIV to reflect sociological conceptualisations. This latter step leads to the identification of the concept of social interaction as an appropriate tool for highlighting the complex social nature of this virus. The unprecedented challenge posed by the epidemic for the international community calls for global cooperation aimed at evaluating the diverse aspects of the issues that many actors in this tragic drama must deal with. Given its wide-reaching international appeal, this book is also recommended for those involved or interested in global health issues and infectious diseases. It will be of particular interest to medical researchers, health workers, social scientists, social workers, policymakers, humanitarian workers, HIV and human rights activists, and graduate students.
Report on the Presidential Mission on Children Orphaned by AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Presidential Mission on Children Orphaned by AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
AIDS Policies and Programs
Author: Gene M. Shelling
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600212178
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a disease of the body's immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS is characterised by the death of CD4 cells (an important part of the body's immune system), which leaves the body vulnerable to life-threatening conditions such as infections and cancers. This book explores how this deadly virus has affected America and high-risk children, and presents reports on different forms of funding provided by the international and United States governments, and the fluctuating rates of AIDS cases.
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600212178
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a disease of the body's immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS is characterised by the death of CD4 cells (an important part of the body's immune system), which leaves the body vulnerable to life-threatening conditions such as infections and cancers. This book explores how this deadly virus has affected America and high-risk children, and presents reports on different forms of funding provided by the international and United States governments, and the fluctuating rates of AIDS cases.
SA Crime Quarterly
Author:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A Generation at Risk?
Author: Robyn Pharoah
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The problem of children left orphaned and vulnerable by HIV/AIDS is receiving increasing attention worldwide. Yet, even as the global community acknowledges the human tragedy that orphaning on the scale heralded by the HIV/AIDS epidemic represents, it is widely speculated that large numbers of orphans may themselves represent a security challenge. By reducing the resources available to children and destabilising the institutions on which they depend - such as the family, school and community - it is argued that HIV/AIDS may severely affect children's development, creating generations of disenfranchised and potentially dysfunctional young people left with little alternative but engage in criminal and other threatening activities.
Publisher:
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The problem of children left orphaned and vulnerable by HIV/AIDS is receiving increasing attention worldwide. Yet, even as the global community acknowledges the human tragedy that orphaning on the scale heralded by the HIV/AIDS epidemic represents, it is widely speculated that large numbers of orphans may themselves represent a security challenge. By reducing the resources available to children and destabilising the institutions on which they depend - such as the family, school and community - it is argued that HIV/AIDS may severely affect children's development, creating generations of disenfranchised and potentially dysfunctional young people left with little alternative but engage in criminal and other threatening activities.
2000 Foreign Policy Overview and the President's Fiscal Year 2001 Foreign Affairs Budget Request
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs
Publisher:
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Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
What is the U.S. Role in Combating the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic?
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources
Publisher:
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
HIV/AIDS and Society in South Africa
Author: Angela Ndinga-Muvumba
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Do we know how HIV/AIDS may affect different sectors of society, possibly altering the course set for development? This book presents a multidisciplinary overview of the discourse on HIV/AIDS and explores the concept of human security and the global development agenda.
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Do we know how HIV/AIDS may affect different sectors of society, possibly altering the course set for development? This book presents a multidisciplinary overview of the discourse on HIV/AIDS and explores the concept of human security and the global development agenda.
Contagion and Chaos
Author: Andrew T. Price-Smith
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262264242
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease. Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, introducing the concept of health security. In Contagion and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith offers the most comprehensive examination yet of disease through the lens of national security. Extending the analysis presented in his earlier book The Health of Nations, Price-Smith argues that epidemic disease represents a direct threat to the power of a state, eroding prosperity and destabilizing both its internal politics and its relationships with other states. He contends that the danger of an infectious pathogen to national security depends on lethality, transmissability, fear, and economic damage. Moreover, warfare and ecological change contribute to the spread of disease and act as “disease amplifiers.” Price-Smith presents a series of case studies to illustrate his argument: the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 (about which he advances the controversial claim that the epidemic contributed to the defeat of Germany and Austria); HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa (he contrasts the worst-case scenario of Zimbabwe with the more stable Botswana); bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also known as mad cow disease); and the SARS contagion of 2002-03. Emerging infectious disease continues to present a threat to national and international security, Price-Smith argues, and globalization and ecological change only accelerate the danger.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262264242
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease. Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, introducing the concept of health security. In Contagion and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith offers the most comprehensive examination yet of disease through the lens of national security. Extending the analysis presented in his earlier book The Health of Nations, Price-Smith argues that epidemic disease represents a direct threat to the power of a state, eroding prosperity and destabilizing both its internal politics and its relationships with other states. He contends that the danger of an infectious pathogen to national security depends on lethality, transmissability, fear, and economic damage. Moreover, warfare and ecological change contribute to the spread of disease and act as “disease amplifiers.” Price-Smith presents a series of case studies to illustrate his argument: the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 (about which he advances the controversial claim that the epidemic contributed to the defeat of Germany and Austria); HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa (he contrasts the worst-case scenario of Zimbabwe with the more stable Botswana); bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also known as mad cow disease); and the SARS contagion of 2002-03. Emerging infectious disease continues to present a threat to national and international security, Price-Smith argues, and globalization and ecological change only accelerate the danger.