The AIDS Pandemic Searching for a Global Response /

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), using it as a unique lens to trace the global response to the AIDS pandemic. The authors describe how WHO came initially to assume leadership of the global response, relate the...

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Main Author: Merson, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Infectious diseases.
Health promotion.
Medicine-History.
Social medicine.
ISBN:9783319471334
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Table of Contents:
  • The Response Before the Global Response
  • The Launch of the Control Program on AIDS
  • Creating a Global Response
  • Assuming Global Leadership
  • Building and Coordinating a Multi-Sectoral Response
  • Health, Human Rights, and the GPA
  • The Resignation of Jonathan Mann
  • The Transition.-Enhancing program delivery
  • Containing the global spread of HIV
  • Supporting Research.- Addressing Stigma, Discrimination, and Human Rights
  • Challenges and Criticisms
  • The Challenges of coordination
  • Rethinking Global AIDS Governance.- The end of GPA and the launch of UNAIDS
  • The Development of UNAIDS.

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