Edited by:

George Ellison, Melissa Parker and Catherine Campbell

Date of publication:

2003

Published by:

Cambridge University Press

ARC Catalog Number:

HC4.484.E4

Description:

Different professional and academic disciplines have addressed the HIV and AIDS pandemic from a variety of perspectives, using different analytical approaches. By bringing these together in one volume, Learning from HIV and AIDS provides a more complete picture of this multi-faceted disease, from the biological and social factors that facilitate HIV transmission to the powerful cultural and political forces that fuel the pandemic. Chapters from contributors working on the aetiology, treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS identify how their work has helped predict the spread of HIV and has improved the survival of those infected. Yet interventions to reduce the spread of HIV have had limited success, and few HIV-infected individuals have access to combination drug therapies. Written for students and researchers and talking a multidisciplinary perspective, this book demonstrates that progress in developing effective and acceptable interventions can only be achieved through interdisciplinary colloaboration between the biological, medical and social sciences.