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- ISBN-10
- 0865693161
- Book Title
- Rethinking AIDS Prevention: Learning from Successes in Developing
- ISBN
- 9780865693166
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Rethinking Aids Prevention : Learning from Successes in Developing Countries
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
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- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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- 6.1in
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- 25.5 Oz
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- 392 Pages
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Edward C. Green, a member of President's Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS, looks objectively at countries that have succeeded in reducing HIV infection rates...along with a worrisome flip side to the progress.
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
0865693161
ISBN-13
9780865693166
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30283822
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Rethinking Aids Prevention : Learning from Successes in Developing Countries
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
392 Pages
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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
25.5 Oz
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1 Vol.
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Ra643
Reviews
"This is an important book that deserves to be widely read and pondered. It is important both because the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is an ongoing tragedy of colossal magnitude and because Edward Green is a member of President Bush's Advisory Commitee on HIV/AIDS at a time when the president has committed the United States to spending $15 billion on the fight against AIDS, much of this sum in Africa to facilitate the work of "faith-based organizations."....Green's book is llikely to be the major intellectual input into that policy, hence it's arguments should be taken very seriously." Population and Development Review, "Long before the AIDS crisis, international health agencies were largely dedicated to distributing health-related commodities, including vaccines, antibiotics and contraceptives, in poor countries all over the world. This approach was rapidly embraced to deal with AIDS. But condoms were not commonly used in Africa, and people have been slow to adopt them. If only these experts properly understood African culture and indigenous concepts of sexuality, disease, danger and death, Green argues, the power of the Ugandan Zero Grazing campaign might have been recognized years ago."- The New York Times, "[F]orceful, but controversial, arguments for faith-based initiatives....General readers; graduate students and above."- Choice, "For 20 years, American and international policymakers have emphasized condom use to prevent AIDS transmission. Now, Edward Green, who is a senior research scientist at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, is asking health officials to rethink that approach, particularly in programs targeted at African countries where AIDS is rampant." Harvard Chapter of NOW, "[F]orceful, but controversial, arguments for faith-based initiatives....General readers; graduate students and above." Choice, "Green's book persuasively argues for making faith-based organizations (FBOs) central to the worldwide assault on HIV/AIDS. Green argues that Western health agencies' largely antagonistic attitude toward religious organizations is counterproductive, particularly in areas where religious organizations have long been the most influential institutions around....Coming from a liberal Harvard research scientist, this approach to the world's worst pandemic may appear novel, but it's far from fiction, it's abundantly educational, it's practical, and it's truly engaging reading for a topic that could have been bogged down by culturally sensitivities and academic esotericism." Focus on Family, "If Green's analysis is correct, we are faced with a troubling paradox: while our technologically sophisticated system often operates at the margin of acceptable cost efficacy, halfway around the world, secular bias and biomedical fiscal power are responsible for discouraging and discrediting simple yet effective solutions, at the cost of millions of lives." JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association, "[G]reen presents excellent evidence of the inadequacies of condom campaigns in Africa and successes of PBC in developing countries around the world....a compelling argument for both the health behavior specialist and the layperson in search of an alternative take on the behavioral potential to overcome high rates of HIV transmission. He mixes academic research with international articles and profiles in order to present a colorful, informative account of a topic too many other authors paint in redundant shades."- African Studies Quarterly, "This is an important book that deserves to be widely read and pondered. It is important both because the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is an ongoing tragedy of colossal magnitude and because Edward Green is a member of President Bush's Advisory Commitee on HIV/AIDS at a time when the president has committed the United States to spending $15 billion on the fight against AIDS, much of this sum in Africa to facilitate the work of "faith-based organizations."....Green's book is llikely to be the major intellectual input into that policy, hence it's arguments should be taken very seriously."- Population and Development Review, "The most important audience for this book is the Bush administration, which has pledged to spend $15 billion on AIDS prevention in Africa and the Caribbean, and which is now being prodded to hand over billions of this sum to the multinational AIDS establishment so thoroughly exposed in this book. If the administration heeds Green's message, it will not assume that the experts are experts, will not assume that the basic facts they cite are facts, and will not assume their good ill or even truthfulness. Africans will be better off for it. There is hope that this message will resonate."- National Review, "This is a book that tries to focus on those successes in AIDS prevention rather than the failures, even though the successes may not be as dramatic as one would hope in this stage of the pandemic. It is these successes that others in less developed countries can learn and hopefully be successful in their prevention efforts. The focus of this book is on heterosexual transmission of HIV in less-developed countries and on just sexually transmitted AIDS. Based on the findings that are reported in the book, it is reasonable that prevention programs should follow the ABCs: Abstain, Be faithful, or use Condoms if you cannot follow A or B. It is the C that is stressed the most with little resources going into A and B. More recently, the dependence on D (Drugs) has become the norm, resulting in the total disregard of A, B, and C....This is an excellent book that should be in all academic libraries." Aids Book Review Journal, "[G]reen presents excellent evidence of the inadequacies of condom campaigns in Africa and successes of PBC in developing countries around the world....a compelling argument for both the health behavior specialist and the layperson in search of an alternative take on the behavioral potential to overcome high rates of HIV transmission. He mixes academic research with international articles and profiles in order to present a colorful, informative account of a topic too many other authors paint in redundant shades." African Studies Quarterly, "Rethinking AIDS Prevention is a brave book, critical yet hopeful, aiming to put HIV prevention firmly back on the global agenda. It has achieved this in record time by providing analysis that appeals to both sides of the political spectrum, with a genuine interest in Africa."- The Lancet, "For 20 years, American and international policymakers have emphasized condom use to prevent AIDS transmission. Now, Edward Green, who is a senior research scientist at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, is asking health officials to rethink that approach, particularly in programs targeted at African countries where AIDS is rampant."- Harvard Chapter of NOW, "This is not another book about how AIDS is out of control in Africa and Third World nations, or on complaining about the inadequacy of secured funds to fight the pandemic. The author looks objectively at countries that have succeeded in reducing HIV infection rates....along with a worrisome flip side to the progress....This book is a bellwether in the escalating controversy, offering persuasive evidence in support of the ABC approach and exposing the fallacies and motivations of its opponents."- Global Health Council, "The most important audience for this book is the Bush administration, which has pledged to spend $15 billion on AIDS prevention in Africa and the Caribbean, and which is now being prodded to hand over billions of this sum to the multinational AIDS establishment so thoroughly exposed in this book. If the administration heeds Green's message, it will not assume that the experts are experts, will not assume that the basic facts they cite are facts, and will not assume their good ill or even truthfulness. Africans will be better off for it. There is hope that this message will resonate." National Review, "Rethinking AIDS Prevention is a brave book, critical yet hopeful, aiming to put HIV prevention firmly back on the global agenda. It has achieved this in record time by providing analysis that appeals to both sides of the political spectrum, with a genuine interest in Africa." The Lancet, "If Green's analysis is correct, we are faced with a troubling paradox: while our technologically sophisticated system often operates at the margin of acceptable cost efficacy, halfway around the world, secular bias and biomedical fiscal power are responsible for discouraging and discrediting simple yet effective solutions, at the cost of millions of lives."- JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association, "Green's book persuasively argues for making faith-based organizations (FBOs) central to the worldwide assault on HIV/AIDS. Green argues that Western health agencies' largely antagonistic attitude toward religious organizations is counterproductive, particularly in areas where religious organizations have long been the most influential institutions around....Coming from a liberal Harvard research scientist, this approach to the world's worst pandemic may appear novel, but it's far from fiction, it's abundantly educational, it's practical, and it's truly engaging reading for a topic that could have been bogged down by culturally sensitivities and academic esotericism."- Focus on Family, "This is a book that tries to focus on those successes in AIDS prevention rather than the failures, even though the successes may not be as dramatic as one would hope in this stage of the pandemic. It is these successes that others in less developed countries can learn and hopefully be successful in their prevention efforts. The focus of this book is on heterosexual transmission of HIV in less-developed countries and on just sexually transmitted AIDS. Based on the findings that are reported in the book, it is reasonable that prevention programs should follow the ABCs: Abstain, Be faithful, or use Condoms if you cannot follow A or B. It is the C that is stressed the most with little resources going into A and B. More recently, the dependence on D (Drugs) has become the norm, resulting in the total disregard of A, B, and C....This is an excellent book that should be in all academic libraries."- Aids Book Review Journal, "This is not another book about how AIDS is out of control in Africa and Third World nations, or on complaining about the inadequacy of secured funds to fight the pandemic. The author looks objectively at countries that have succeeded in reducing HIV infection rates....along with a worrisome flip side to the progress....This book is a bellwether in the escalating controversy, offering persuasive evidence in support of the ABC approach and exposing the fallacies and motivations of its opponents." Global Health Council, "Long before the AIDS crisis, international health agencies were largely dedicated to distributing health-related commodities, including vaccines, antibiotics and contraceptives, in poor countries all over the world. This approach was rapidly embraced to deal with AIDS. But condoms were not commonly used in Africa, and people have been slow to adopt them. If only these experts properly understood African culture and indigenous concepts of sexuality, disease, danger and death, Green argues, the power of the Ugandan Zero Grazing campaign might have been recognized years ago." The New York Times
Table of Content
ContentsPrefaceviiAcknowledgmentsixAbbreviations and AcronymsxiPART IIntroduction11Why Do We Need to Rethink AIDS Prevention?32Epidemiology23PART IIWestern Approaches to AIDS Prevention in Developing Countries533##"Behavior Change##" and the Problem of Ethnocentrism554Questioning Condoms935The ARV Issue125PART IIIIndigenous Approaches to AIDS Prevention in Developing Countries1396What Can We Learn from Uganda?1417Some Other African Success Stories2278What Can We Learn from Jamaica?2539What Can We Learn from Thailand?26310Common Factors in Success27311Conclusion: New Paradigms for AIDS Prevention Programs319References333Index365
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
General, Diseases / Aids & Hiv
Lccn
2003-059691
Dewey Decimal
616.97/9205
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Health & Fitness
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