Lethal decisions : the unnecessary deaths of women and children from HIV/AIDS / Arthur J. Ammann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ammann, Arthur J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HIV infections--History.

HIV infections.

AIDS (Disease)--Patients.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV/AIDS.

HIV-positive people.

AIDS death and dying.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"This book chronicles the discovery of AIDS in a handful of infants beginning in 1981 and the remarkable scientific progress in prevention and treatment over the 15 years that followed"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

I. The Beginning

1. Pediatric HIV/AIDS

2. AIDS and Blood

3. The Blood Banking Industry in Denial

4. A Personal Tragedy

5. Finding the Cause of AIDS

6. Saving Lives: Preventing HIV Infection of Infants

7. The Denialist Movement

II. Pediatric AIDS Becomes a Reality

8. Born of Necessity: The Pediatric AIDS Foundation

9. A Priority at Last: Pediatric HIV/AIDS

10. A Living Legacy: Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Awards

11. The Ariel Project: The Best, the Brightest, and the Committed

12. Too Urgent to Wait: The American Foundation for AIDS Research

13. What about the Rest of the World?: The First Conference on Global Strategies for the Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mothers to Infants

14. Ensuring That Voices from Low-Income Countries Are Heard

15. A Call to Action: The Second Conference on Global Strategies for the Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mothers to Infants

16. Now Just Go and Do It: The Third Conference on Global Strategies for the Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mothers to Infants

17. From a Small Beginning to Major Prevention and Care Programs

18. Why Wait? Start Now

19. Going the Last Mile: The Obscure, the Neglected, and the Desperately Needy

III. Unexpected Obstacles: Institutions, Therapeutic Denialism, and Treatment Guidelines

20. Pediatric AIDS and Drug Development

21. Acronyms and Legislative Redundancy

22. Facts Speak Louder Than Words: Examining Efforts That Failed

23. Guidelines Can Become Rules

24. Treatment Guidelines: Not without Risks

IV. Stalled: Losing Sight of the Mission

25. Damn the Ethics, Full Speed Ahead

26. The Tyranny of Research

27. Misspent Dollars

28. For Better or for Worse?: The Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trial Group Expands.

29. Turning the Corner

V. Ending the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Epidemic

30. What Went Well

31. PEPFAR to the Rescue

32. Solutions

Conclusion

Timeline: Pediatric HIV/AIDS Milestones and Events

Acronyms

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 27, 2017).

ISBN:

0-8265-0388-8

0-8265-2126-6

OCLC:

940455420