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Families and Communities Responding to AIDS
ISBN: 9781857289657 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious illnesses such as HIV and AIDS. Yet families and communities can also stigmatise their members, leaving people to die in the most appalling conditions. This book examines the diversity of family and community responses to HIV and AIDS. By examining contexts such as nuclear, extended and refugee family households, and gay community networks and structures, it offers insight into the factors which lead to positive responses and those which trigger negative ones.
All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious illnesses such as...
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238,48 zł |
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Families and Communities Responding to AIDS
ISBN: 9781857289992 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious illnesses such as HIV and AIDS. Yet families and communities can also stigmatise their members, leaving people to die in the most appalling conditions. This book examines the diversity of family and community responses to HIV and AIDS. By examining contexts such as nuclear, extended and refugee family households, and gay community networks and structures, it offers insight into the factors which lead to positive responses and those which trigger negative ones.
All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious illnesses such as...
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924,88 zł |
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HIV and the Eye HIV and the Eye HIV and the Eye HIV and the Eye
ISBN: 9781860940842 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers comprehensively the eye problems associated with HIV infection, in both their diagnosis and their management. It is aimed at all doctors involved in the care of HIV patients, and is well illustrated. There is a chapter on the current management of HIV-infected patients, and the rest of the book deals with the types of ocular problems. Diagnosis, differential diagnosis and management are all covered in detail.
This book covers comprehensively the eye problems associated with HIV infection, in both their diagnosis and their management. It is aimed at all doct...
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311,54 zł |
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AIDS and the Kidney
ISBN: 9781932077599 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is the increased susceptibility of blacks to kidney failure from HIV-AIDS explained by biology or socioeconomic variables? Is kidney failure an early or late complication of HIV infection? Are there receptors for HIV in kidney tissue and is the kidney a major reservoir for the virus? Is acute renal failure an inevitable consequence of drug treatment in HIV disease? Should kidney or solid organ transplantation be offered to patients with HIV infection? Can HIV-associated nephrotherapy be prevented or reversed by drug therapy and has HAART eradicated pediatric HIV nephrotherapy? What is the...
Is the increased susceptibility of blacks to kidney failure from HIV-AIDS explained by biology or socioeconomic variables? Is kidney failure an early ...
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107,56 zł |
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Anti-AIDS Drug Development
ISBN: 9783718656981 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text covers significant aspects that are involved in the search, design and development of potential anti-AIDS agents, with emphasis on areas related to drug development. These include enzyme inhibitors (reverse transcriptase, protease, glucosidase), inhibitors of gene expression (oligonucleotides), viral binding inhibitors (anionic compounds and CD4 mimetics) and various plant-derived products. A focus of this book is the medicinal chemistry of these classes of compounds. In addition, other areas that are pertinent to drug development are also addressed. These include HIV regulatory...
This text covers significant aspects that are involved in the search, design and development of potential anti-AIDS agents, with emphasis on areas rel...
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1046,58 zł |
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Combination Therapy of AIDS
ISBN: 9783764366001 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HIV infection has been a greater challenge to current medicine than any other viral disease ofmodem times. HIV leads to a persistent infection and the virus has an immense genetic flexibility under selective pressure. During its replica tive cycle in patients, HIV accumulates mutations at such a high rate that the selective pressure inflicted on the immune system, or generated by antiviral drugs rapidly triggers the appearance of escape mutants. Currently available drugs, when used singly, are not capable of suppressing virus replication in patients to such a level that the generation of...
HIV infection has been a greater challenge to current medicine than any other viral disease ofmodem times. HIV leads to a persistent infection and the...
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605,23 zł |
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Sexual Interactions and HIV Risk: New Conceptual Perspectives in European Research
ISBN: 9780748403455 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How sexual risk is negotiated betwen partners is an area of considerable theoretical interest, with the dominant models of analysis focusing on individual decisions to engage in sexual behaviour and relying on rational decision-making. This work, based on the findings from work co-ordinated by the Centre d'Etudes Sociologiques in Brussels, offers a social critique of the theories and perspectives which have currently been brought to bear in the study of sexual risk behaviour and HIV.
How sexual risk is negotiated betwen partners is an area of considerable theoretical interest, with the dominant models of analysis focusing on indivi...
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705,83 zł |
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The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
ISBN: 9780312427726 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid. Helen Epstein left her job in the US in 1993 to move to Uganda, where she began work on a test vaccine for HIV. Once there, she met patients, doctors, politicians, and aid workers, and began exploring the problem of AIDS in Africa through the lenses of medicine, politics, economics, and sociology. Amid the catastrophic failure to reverse the... A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory... |
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99,88 zł |
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HIV/AIDS and Democratic Governance in South Africa : Illustrating the Impact on Electoral Processing
ISBN: 9781919798806 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of a continent-wide study being carried out by the Governance and AIDS Programme of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), this book brings together the most recent and substantive empirical evidence pertaining to the effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the democratic process and political dynamics in South Africa.
Part of a continent-wide study being carried out by the Governance and AIDS Programme of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), this boo...
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268,45 zł |
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Scientific Errors and Controversies in the U.S. Hiv/AIDS Epidemic: How They Slowed Advances and Were Resolved
ISBN: 9780313347177 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our understanding, prevention, and treatment of HIV have made remarkable strides in the past two decades, but the way has not been smooth or straight. Part history, part narrative, and mainly scientific autopsy, this book is an insider's account of the errors, controversies and corrections that have marked the first 25 years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States. The author discusses the sources of these errors and controversies and provides many examples. These range from the scientifically contentious and protracted-- such as laboratory contaminations that lead to identifying... Our understanding, prevention, and treatment of HIV have made remarkable strides in the past two decades, but the way has not been smooth or straig... |
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230,58 zł |
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Aids, Identity, and Community: The HIV Epidemic and Lesbians and Gay Men
ISBN: 9780803953611 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Please update Sage UK and Sage India addresses on imprint page.
Please update Sage UK and Sage India addresses on imprint page.
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755,38 zł |
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Memory Bank for HIV Medications:
ISBN: 9780867206852 / Angielski / Mapa, zawijana w rulon / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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280,60 zł |
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The Political Cost of AIDS in Africa : Evidence from Six Countries
ISBN: 9781920118655 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The political cost of AIDS in Africa provides comprehensive empirical evidence of the impact HIV/AIDS is having on politics and the electoral process.
The political cost of AIDS in Africa provides comprehensive empirical evidence of the impact HIV/AIDS is having on politics and the electoral process.
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362,92 zł |
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AIDS Orphans Rising: What You Should Know and What You Can Do To Help Them Succeed
ISBN: 9781932690477 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By 2010, there will be 25 million AIDS orphans. Left alone, they will be ripe candidates for radicalization and exploitation by dictators and terrorists, and civilization will deteriorate to an unrecognizable point. Each chapter provides links to organizations that are working on solutions to this problem.
By 2010, there will be 25 million AIDS orphans. Left alone, they will be ripe candidates for radicalization and exploitation by dictators and terroris...
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61,30 zł |
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AIDS Capitation
ISBN: 9781560231240 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover effective strategies for AIDS healthcare You ll definitely want to see what s documented inside AIDS Capitation if you re affiliated in any way with current efforts to bolster and improve healthcare policies and procedures for AIDS victims and their families. With this scholarly, up-to-date guidebook, you ll find that your awareness and knowledge base concerning contemporary AIDS healthcare issues will expand and diversify, giving you a more stable information base from which you can make your own policy changes and civic organization improvements.If you re a...
Discover effective strategies for AIDS healthcare You ll definitely want to see what s documented inside AIDS Capitation if you re affiliate...
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136,25 zł |
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AIDS Orphans Rising: What You Should Know and What You Can Do To Help Them Succeed
ISBN: 9781932690613 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every 14 seconds a child-headed household is formed when parents die from AIDS. "AIDS Orphans Rising" examines the daily lives of these children and what can be done to help them. By 2010, there will be 25,000,000 AIDS orphans--uneducated, disenfranchised, and unwanted.
Every 14 seconds a child-headed household is formed when parents die from AIDS. "AIDS Orphans Rising" examines the daily lives of these children and w...
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107,42 zł |
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HIV AND AIDS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
ISBN: 9780745311241 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The social and behavioural aspects of HIV and AIDS have continued to defy explanation. Often, the complex dynamics of the condition are overlooked in the attempt to find a chemical answer. This book examines the quest for appropriate prevention programmes for HIV, based on an examination of its epidemiology. The transfer of HIV/AIDS among people in any society is complex, but the author argues that understanding how the virus moves socially can help in prevention.
The social and behavioural aspects of HIV and AIDS have continued to defy explanation. Often, the complex dynamics of the condition are overlooked in ...
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153,67 zł |
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AIDS and Infectious Diseases - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies - 26 Session
ISBN: 9789812380920 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains the proceedings of the 26th session of the International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, held in 2001. The topics covered include: AIDS and infectious diseases; pollution in the Caspian Sea; science and technology for
This volume contains the proceedings of the 26th session of the International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, held in 2001. The topi...
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827,53 zł |
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AIDS in Africa: How Did it Ever Happen?
ISBN: 9789990876246 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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139,20 zł |
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International Politics of Hiv/AIDS: Global Disease-Local Pain
ISBN: 9780415413848 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the global governance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, interrogating the role of this international system and global discourse on HIV/AIDS interventions. The geographical focus is Sub-Saharan Africa since the region has been at the forefront of these interventions. There is a need to understand the relationship between the international political environment and the impact of resulting policies on HIV/AIDS in the context of people's lives. Hakan Seckinelgin points out a certain disjuncture between this governance structures and the way people experience the disease in... This book examines the global governance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, interrogating the role of this international system and global discourse on HIV/... |
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136,25 zł |
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