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Dispatches from the AIDS pandemic : a public health story / edited by Kevin M. De Cock [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jaffe, Harold W., author.
- Curran, James W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.).
- AIDS (Disease)--History.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Pandemics--History.
- Pandemics.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.
- Pandemics--history.
- United States Government Agencies--history.
- Communicable Disease Control--history.
- Public Health Practice--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.).
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.
- Pandemics--history.
- United States Government Agencies--history.
- Communicable Disease Control--history.
- Public Health Practice--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 360 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Public health story
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic is a unique firsthand account of the AIDS pandemic from three public health authorities who galvanized the AIDS pandemic response in the United States and abroad.
- Contents:
- SECTION I FROM UNEXPLAINED ILLNESS TO EXPANDING EPIDEMIC
- 1. CDC and Outbreak Response
- 2. The Beginning
- 3. Surveillance: The Cornerstone of the Early Response
- 4. Homosexual Men
- 5. Heterosexual Men and Women and Injection Drug Users
- 6. Haitian Americans and Haiti
- 7. Mothers and Infants
- 8. Blood and Blood Products
- 9. HIV: Discovery, Diagnosis, and Disease
- 10. Responding to Fears: Real and Imagined Threats
- 11. Making Predictions
- SECTION II CDC AND THE EARLY INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO AIDS
- 12. Working Internationally
- 13. Projet SIDA in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- 14. Jonathan Mann: Past as Prologue
- 15. HIV-2 and Projet RETRO-CI in Cote d'Ivoire
- 16. The HIV/AIDS Collaboration in Thailand
- SECTION III THE MODERN AIDS ERA
- 17. Advances in Science and Public Health
- 18. Origins
- 19. Increased Understanding, Improved Outcomes
- 20. CDC in the Modern AIDS Era
- 21. WHO and the Evolving AIDS Pandemic
- 22. CDC and the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: De Cock, Kevin M. Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic
- ISBN:
- 9780197626542
- 9780197626559
- OCLC:
- 1377815478
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