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Understanding and Preventing HIV Risk Behavior: Safer Sex and Drug Use
ISBN: 9780803974258 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In almost 20 years of tackling the AIDS epidemic, one theme has consistently emerged: the solution to stopping the spread of the AIDS virus, HIV, rests with individual behaviour. The critical question is: how can people be influenced to change risk behaviours related to sexual activity and drug use?
This volume brings together some of the most respected researchers in the area of reducing the transmission of HIV. Their work represents the state-of-the-art research on safer sex and drug use. The issues discussed include: adolescents at risk from AIDS; denial, motivation and behaviour; and... In almost 20 years of tackling the AIDS epidemic, one theme has consistently emerged: the solution to stopping the spread of the AIDS virus, HIV, rest...
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408,89 zł |
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At Odds with AIDS: Thinking and Talking about a Virus
ISBN: 9780804724388 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS? What kind of rupture with history does AIDS represent? How does AIDS and what is said about AIDS relate to gay identity? How does AIDS relate to thinking and acting, particularly deconstructive thinking? The author confronts these questions from a broad philosophical background that ranges from Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger to contemporary thought concerning gay activism and AIDS research, all brought together in an effort to find a philosophical language capable of doing justice to the singularity of lived experience in...
What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS? What kind of rupture with history does AIDS represent? How does AIDS and what is said about...
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116,78 zł |
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Preventing AIDS: A Sourcebook for Behavioral Interventions
ISBN: 9780805824902 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive overview of behavioral interventions to prevent HIV-AIDS risk-related behaviors. It synthesizes the empirical literature on individual, group, and community-level interventions and provides an objective and detailed assessment of intervention outcomes. Factors associated with behavioral risk for HIV transmission, theories of HIV risk behavior change, and the state of HIV prevention technology transfer are also reviewed. Additionally, behavioral interventions for adolescents and adults of diverse ethnic and sexual backgrounds are discussed with respect to...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of behavioral interventions to prevent HIV-AIDS risk-related behaviors. It synthesizes the empirical liter...
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438,05 zł |
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Preventing Aids: A Sourcebook for Behavioral Interventions
ISBN: 9780805824919 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides an overview of behavioural interventions to prevent HIV-AIDS risk-related behaviours. It synthesizes the empirical literature on individual, group and community-level interventions and provides an objective and detailed assessment of intervention outcomes. Factors associated with behavioural risk for HIV transmission, theories of HIV risk behaviour change, and the state of HIV prevention technology transfer are also reviewed. Additionally, behavioural interventions for adolescents and adults of diverse ethnic and sexual backgrounds are discussed with respect to each...
This volume provides an overview of behavioural interventions to prevent HIV-AIDS risk-related behaviours. It synthesizes the empirical literature on ...
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131,39 zł |
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Communication Perspectives on Hiv/AIDS for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780805858266 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reflecting the current state of research into the communication aspects of HIV/AIDS, this volume explores AIDS-related communication scholarship, moving forward from the 1992 publication AIDS: A Communication Perspective. Editors Timothy Edgar, Seth M. Noar, and Vicki S. Freimuth have developed this up-to-date collection to focus on today's key communication issues in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Chapters herein examine the interplay of the messages individuals receive about AIDS at the public level as well as the messages exchanged between individuals at the interpersonal level.... Reflecting the current state of research into the communication aspects of HIV/AIDS, this volume explores AIDS-related communication scholarship, m... |
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705,83 zł |
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The Encyclopedia of HIV and AIDS
ISBN: 9780816048083 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering new and emerging topics and presenting accurate statistical information, this reference contains more than 3000 entries covering the basic biological, medical, financial, legal, political and social issues and terms associated with HIV and AIDS.
Covering new and emerging topics and presenting accurate statistical information, this reference contains more than 3000 entries covering the basic bi...
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306,67 zł |
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The Africa Multi-Country AIDS Program 2000-2006: Results of the World Bank's Response to a Development Crisis
ISBN: 9780821370520 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The Africa Multi-Country AIDS Program 2000 2006' shows that the funding made available through the World Bank's Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP) has dramatically increased access to HIV prevention, care, and treatment across Africa. The book uses extensive data from national surveys and HIV/AIDS programs that show how MAP funding has helped support children and adults affected by AIDS, prevented mother-to-child transmission, helped countries build capacity for expanded and more effective national programs--including providing treatment--and been a catalyst for greatly increased support....
'The Africa Multi-Country AIDS Program 2000 2006' shows that the funding made available through the World Bank's Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP) has ...
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58,37 zł |
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Legal Aspects of Hiv/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform
ISBN: 9780821371053 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an invaluable resource for lawyers, policy makers, and other practitioners with an interest in countries' responses to HIV/AIDS. 'Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform' covers 65 wide-ranging topics in a concise, accessible format, explaining how laws and regulations can either underpin or undermine public health programs and responsible personal behavior. For each topic, the Guide summarizes the key legal or policy issues, provides relevant 'practice examples' (citing actual laws and regulations), and offers a selective list of references that may be consulted...
This is an invaluable resource for lawyers, policy makers, and other practitioners with an interest in countries' responses to HIV/AIDS. 'Legal Aspect...
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87,57 zł |
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Programme plurinational de lutte contre le SIDA en Afrique 2000-2006 : Bilan des interventions de la Banque mondiale face a une crise de developpement
ISBN: 9780821371091 / Francuski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En financant le Programme plurinational contre le SIDA (PPS), la Banque mondiale a permis un considerable elargissement de l'acces aux services de prevention, de soins et de traitement lies au VIH en Afrique. C'est ce que demontre le present 'Programme plurinational de lutte contre le SIDA en Afrique 2000 2006: bilan des interventions de la Banque mondiale face a une crise de developpement', lequel se base largement sur les donnees recueillies dans le cadre d'enquetes nationales ou de programmes VIH/SIDA specifi ques. Les fonds du PPS ont fourni les moyens d'apporter une aide tant aux enfants...
En financant le Programme plurinational contre le SIDA (PPS), la Banque mondiale a permis un considerable elargissement de l'acces aux services de pre...
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58,37 zł |
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O Programa Multinacional de Africa Contra a SIDA 2000-2006 : Resultados da Resposta do Banco Mundial a uma Crise de Desenvolvimento
ISBN: 9780821372296 / Portugalski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'O Programa Multinacional de Africa Contra a SIDA 2000-2006' mostra que o financiamento disponibilizado atraves do Programa Multinacional Contra a SIDA (MAP) aumentou dramaticamente o acesso a prevencao, cuidado e tratamento de VIH em toda Africa. O livro faz amplo uso de dados de levantamentos e programas nacionais de VIH/SIDA que demonstram como o fi nanciamento do MAP tem ajudado a suportar criancas e adultos afectados pela SIDA, a prevenir a transmissao de mae a fi lho, ademais de ajudar os paises a adquirir capacidade para programas nacionais ampliados e mais efectivos, incluindo...
'O Programa Multinacional de Africa Contra a SIDA 2000-2006' mostra que o financiamento disponibilizado atraves do Programa Multinacional Contra a SID...
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58,37 zł |
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AIDS and the National Body
ISBN: 9780822319733 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Yingling was a rising star in American studies, a leading figure in gay and lesbian studies, and a prominent theorist of AIDS and cultural politics when he died in 1992. AIDS and the National Body is a brilliant excursion into the mind and heart of Yingling, author of the critically acclaimed book, Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text. Robyn Wiegman, a friend and colleague of Yingling s, has collected in this book a selection of his critical and creative work. These previously published and unpublished essays, nonacademic prose, poetry, and letters are a powerful...
Thomas Yingling was a rising star in American studies, a leading figure in gay and lesbian studies, and a prominent theorist of AIDS and cultural poli...
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116,78 zł |
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AIDS Clinical Review 2000/2001
ISBN: 9780824704339 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume updates important and controversial issues facing physicians, nurses, microbiologists, pharmacists and epidemiologists who deal directly with patients suffering from HIV and AIDS. It focuses on specific areas in which important advances have occurred in diagnosis, therapy and prevention of infection and related complications.
This volume updates important and controversial issues facing physicians, nurses, microbiologists, pharmacists and epidemiologists who deal directly w...
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559,80 zł |
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AIDS-Related Cancers and Their Treatment
ISBN: 9780824776695 / Angielski / Twarda / 429 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book summarizes the etiology, presentation, and treatment of the complex symptoms, infections, and opportunistic cancers of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Presents therapies that strike a balance between controlling and eliminating cancer and minimizing the damage to the immune system. Illustrates points with clear and easily read figures, tables, and flow charts Written to survey the magnitude of the impact HIV and AIDS have had on public health and oncology, AIDS-Related Cancers and Their Treatment This book summarizes the etiology, presentation, and treatment of the complex symptoms, infections, and opportunistic cancers of people living with HI...
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924,88 zł |
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Opportunistic Infections in Patients with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
ISBN: 9780824780807 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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803,19 zł |
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Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia
ISBN: 9780824831936 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Melanesia, rates of HIV infection are among the highest in the Pacific and increasing rapidly, with grave humanitarian, development, and political implications. There is a great need for social research on HIV/AIDS in the region to provide better insights into the sensitive issues surrounding HIV transmission. This collection, the first book on HIV and AIDS in the Pacific region, gathers together stunning and original accounts of the often surprising ways that people make sense of the AIDS epidemic in various parts of Melanesia. The volume addresses substantive issues concerning AIDS and...
In Melanesia, rates of HIV infection are among the highest in the Pacific and increasing rapidly, with grave humanitarian, development, and political ...
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243,39 zł |
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Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia
ISBN: 9780824832490 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Melanesia, rates of HIV infection are among the highest in the Pacific and increasing rapidly, with grave humanitarian, development, and political implications. There is a great need for social research on HIV/AIDS in the region to provide better insights into the sensitive issues surrounding HIV transmission. This collection, the first book on HIV and AIDS in the Pacific region, gathers together stunning and original accounts of the often surprising ways that people make sense of the AIDS epidemic in various parts of Melanesia. The volume addresses substantive issues concerning AIDS and...
In Melanesia, rates of HIV infection are among the highest in the Pacific and increasing rapidly, with grave humanitarian, development, and political ...
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102,18 zł |
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Micronutrients and HIV Infection
ISBN: 9780849300851 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analogous to other infections, evidence suggests that improved micronutrient intake may reduce HIV transmission and progression, as well as morbidity from common and opportunistic infections. This is important information, considering many in the world's HIV-infected population do not yet have access to anti-retroviral drugs. Micronutrients and HIV Infection presents current knowledge on the role of micronutrients in HIV and other infections - knowledge that can be used to improve case management and public health interventions.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of micronutrients... Analogous to other infections, evidence suggests that improved micronutrient intake may reduce HIV transmission and progression, as well as morbidity ...
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1070,92 zł |
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Nutrition and AIDS
ISBN: 9780849302725 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evidence shows that nutritional supports can help maintain health in the HIV-infected patient by replacing lost nutrients, compensating for nutritional damage done by the retrovirus-induced immunodeficiency, and stimulating the remaining immune system and cells for better host defenses.
This new edition of Nutrition and AIDS is a timely look at what dietary materials, supplements, and foods may benefit or treat AIDS, as well as nutritional deficiencies that can accelerate progression to AIDS and death. It offers a variety of alternative dietary and herbal remedies, including some that... Evidence shows that nutritional supports can help maintain health in the HIV-infected patient by replacing lost nutrients, compensating for nutritiona...
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1168,27 zł |
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Cell Death During HIV Infection
ISBN: 9780849328275 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an effort to go beyond immune-based therapies, researchers are now considering the implications of apoptosis dysregulation during HIV-induced immunodeficiency. This work provides the first comprehensive compendium of the progress made in understanding the process of cell death related to HIV and the potential breakthroughs in treatment that offer much promise. Combining the work of more than two-dozen top researchers, this seminal volume provides clinicians and researchers with an excellent reference, while also serving as an incubator to stimulate future research. It explains the...
In an effort to go beyond immune-based therapies, researchers are now considering the implications of apoptosis dysregulation during HIV-induced immun...
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1046,58 zł |
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AIDS on the Agenda: Adapting Development and Humanitarian Programmes to Meet the Challenge of HIV/AIDS
ISBN: 9780855984694 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AIDS on the Agenda is written for policymakers, managers, and program staff in development and humanitarian agencies, to promote debate about the challenges that confront them in a world which has been changed for ever by the pandemic of AIDS.
The book considers three possible responses to the problem: * Do nothing. * Try to specialize in direct AIDS work. * Adapt core programs and internal systems to respond to the impact of AIDS. The author argues for the third approach as the essential initial response. She shows how mainstream work in a wide range of... AIDS on the Agenda is written for policymakers, managers, and program staff in development and humanitarian agencies, to promote debate about the chal...
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115,10 zł |
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