HIV prevention : a comprehensive approach / edited by Kenneth H. Mayer and Hank F. Pizer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mayer, Kenneth H.

Pizer, Hank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HIV infections--Prevention.

HIV infections.

HIV Infections--prevention & control.

Medical Subjects:

HIV Infections--prevention & control.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 651 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, 2009.

Summary:

AIDS continues to be an unprecedented pandemic in world history with more than 30 million people now living with HIV and an additional 30 million that have already died from it. In sub-Saharan Africa HIV/AIDS has reversed decades of progress in reducing mortality and increasing life expectancy.

HIV Prevention: A Comprehensive Approach deals with all aspects of AIDS prevention: basic life sciences that impact prevention, such as epidemiology, molecular immunology, virology and behavioral science, vaccines and microbicides, using antiretroviral drugs as prevention, and adapting successful research studies into public health interventions and program evaluation.

Despite advances in public health and AIDS treatment, more people contract HIV each day than start on AIDS treatment. Until a fully protective vaccine is developed the world will depend on prevention to halt the continuing spread of this disease. No one-size-fits-all prevention approach will work in all the geographic, demographic and socio-cultural environments impacted by the worldwide AIDS pandemic. This book is designed to provide students and experts with a comprehensive review and understanding of the subject.

Contents:

Part I: Epidemiological and biological issues in HIV prevention

Current and future trends: implications for HIV preventions / Vikrant V. Sahasrabuddhe and Sten H. Vermund

Understanding the biology of HIV-1 transmission: the foundation for prevention / Deborah J. Anderson

HIV vaccines / Robert E. Geise and Ann Duerr

Microbicides / Ian McGowan

Using antiretrovirals to prevent HIV transmission / Cynthia L. Gay, Angela D. Kashuba and Myron S. Cohen

Male circumcision and HIV prevention / Ronald Gray, David Serwadda, Godfrey Kigozi and Maria J. Wawer

Part II: Behavioral issues in HIV prevention

Payoff from AIDS behavioral prevention research / Willo Pequegnat and Ellen Stover

Individual interventions / Matthew J. Mimiaga ... [et al.]

Couples' voluntary counseling and testing / Kathy Hageman, Amanda Tichacek and Susan Allen

Updating HIV prevention with gay men: current challenges and opportunities to advance health among gay men / Ron Stall, Amy Herrick, Thomas E. Guadamuz and Mark S. Friedman

Reducing sexual risk behavior among men and women with HIV infection / Jean L. Richardson and Tracey E. Wilson

Injection drug use and HIV: past and future consideration for HIV prevention and interventions / Crystal M. Fuller, Chandra Ford and Abby Rudolph

HIV risk and prevention for non-injection substance users / Lydia N. Drumright and Grant N. Colfax

Preventing HIV among sex workers / Bea Vuylsteke, Anjana Das, Gina Dallabetta and Marie Laga

Interventions with youth in high-prevalence areas / Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Anna Meyer-Weitz and Abigail Harrison

Interventions with incarcerated persons / Ank Nijhawan, Nickolas Zaller, David Cohen and Josiah D. Rich

Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV / James A. McIntyre and Glenda E. Gray

Part III: Structural and technical issues in HIV prevention

Harm reduction, human rights and public health / Christ Beyrer, Susan G. Sherman and Stefan Baral

HIV testing and counseling / Julie A. Denison, Donna L. Higgins and Michael D. Sweat

Structural interventions in societal contexts / Suniti Solomon and Kartik K. Venkatesh

Evaluating HIV/AIDS programs in the US and developing countries / Jane T. Bertrand, David R. Holtgrave and Amy Gregowski

Adapting successful research studies in the public health arena: going from efficacy trials to effective public health interventions / Kevin A. Fenton, Richard J. Wolitski, Cynthia M. Lyles and Sevgi O. Aral.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780123742353

0123742358

OCLC:

277055180