UID:
almafu_9959240707702883
Format:
1 online resource (473 p.)
ISBN:
81-321-1706-9
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1-283-57563-9
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9786613888082
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81-321-1077-3
Content:
A work by health and development experts and professionals, this well-researched compilation traces the evolving and highly dynamic nature of HIV/AIDS and its unprecedented health and development threat in Asia. Three decades of HIV/AIDS in Asia studies how the region has responded to this epidemic in the last three decades. It contains country-specific chapters on the HIV/AIDS problem-low-prevalence countries such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as well as countries with advanced epidemics such as Cambodia, China, India, Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam-and the evolving response to it. There is rec
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Message from the Regional Director,WHO/SEARO; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 - Three Decades of HIV/AIDS in Asia: Achievements, Lessons Learnt and Opportunities Ahead; 2 - Epidemiology and Transmission Dynamics of the HIV Epidemic in Asia; 3 - Natural History of HIV Infection; 4 - Emerging Issues in HIV and TB Prevention: Role of Antiretrovirals for Prevention; 5 - National Response to HIV/AIDS in Cambodia: A Health Sector Perspective; 6 - HIV/AIDS in China: The Response and Challenges
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7 - HIV/AIDS in India: The Epidemic and National Response8 - The Rising Epidemic of HIV in Pakistan: Challenges to a Comprehensive Response; 9 - Evolving Responses to HIV/AIDS in Thailand: Lessons Learnt; 10 - HIV in Viet Nam; 11 - Maintaining Low Levels of HIV for Three Decades: Case Studies from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; 12 - Epidemiology of Sexually Transmitted Infections in South-East Asia and Public Health Approach to Their Prevention and Control; 13 - Interventions with Sex Workers: From the 100% Condom Use Programme to Community Empowerment
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14 - The HIV Epidemic among People Who Inject Drugs in Asia: Progress and Unresolved Issues15 - The Epidemic of HIV among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Populations in India; 16 - Averting HIV Transmission through Safe Blood in the South-East Asia Region of WHO; 17 - Eliminating Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in Thailand; 18 - Clinical Management of HIV/AIDS: Current Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment; 19 - HIV Drug Resistance in Asia: An Emerging Problem?; 20 - Priority Areas for HIV/AIDS Operational Research in Asia
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21 - Enhancing Access to Antiretroviral Drugs in Developing Countries22 - HIV Vaccine Development in Asia; 23 - Implications and Feasibility of Commercial Health Insurance for People Living with HIV in India; About the Editor and Contributors; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 81-321-0907-4
Language:
English
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