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...Daniel M. Fox HIV infection is now perceived as the end stage of a chronic disease that is spreading most rapidly among blacks and Hispanics. The politics of the HIV epidemic in the 1980s were dominated by four interacting factors: fear and fascination; who had the disease and to whom it seemed...

...). The controversy A1C reporting produced was relatively contained, but when Dr. Thomas Frieden, New York City health commissioner, called for the state to begin tracking viral loads and drug resistance among patients with HIV, both the medical community and a wider public took notice and have started to grapple...

...Ronald Bayer; Claire Edington Two years ago, in May 2007, UNAIDS and WHO issued new guidelines on HIV testing. Prepared to meet the demands of the AIDS pandemic and the prospects of extending the benefits of antiretroviral therapy to regions where such treatment had been all but out of reach...

...Harold Pollack Monica S. Ruiz, Alicia R. Gable, Edward H. Kaplan, Michael A. Stato, Harvey V. Fineberg, and James Trussell, eds. Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Committee on HIV Prevention Strategies in the United States. Institute of Medicine. No Time to Lose: Getting More...

...Suzanne Maman Carole A. Campbell. Women, Families, and HIV/AIDS: A Sociological Perspective on the Epidemic in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 190 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books: Review Symposium...

...Sharon B. Schweikhart Chris Bennett and Ewan Ferlie. Managing Crisis and Change in Health Care: The Organizational Response to HIV/AIDS . Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1994. 212 pp. $29.00 paper. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996...

...Scott Burris Mark Carl Rom. Fatal Extraction: The Story behind the Florida Dentist Accused of Infecting His Patients with HIV and Poisoning Public Health. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. 226 pp. $23.00 cloth. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 References Breyer , S...

...Jennifer S. Hirsch; Le Minh Giang; Richard G. Parker; Le Bach Duong Abstract Drawing on the changing landscape of responses to HIV in Vietnam, this article describes the key players and analyzes the relationships between global players and local interests, including both the omnipresent state...

...Tasleem J. Padamsee Abstract The history of government action on HIV/AIDS has much to teach us about the dynamics and possibilities of US public health policy, but it has been insufficiently studied by social scientists of the epidemic. This article draws on a large set of original interviews...

...Jeff Stryker Users of intravenous heroin, cocaine, and amphetamines risk the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through the sharing of contaminated injection equipment. Although most users are aware of this risk, the scarcity of sterile needles and syringes, combined with various...

...Martha S. Swartz This article examines whether hospitals should obtain specific informed consent for HIV testing in addition to the general consent for routine procedures that is obtained upon admission. The article argues that specific consent should be obtained in all instances in which the HIV...

... of a Preventive AIDS Vaccine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 193 pp. $26.50 cloth. The worldwide epidemic of HIV infection is currently estimated to in- clude 20 million infected adults and 2 million infected children. Approx- imately 5,000 new infections occur each day, and new epicenters...

... Epidemic: An End to HIV Exceptionalism? New England Journal of Medicine 324 ( 21 ): 1500 -1504. Brandt , A. M. 1987 . No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880. New York: Oxford University Press. Burris , S. 1994 . Public Health, “AIDS...

...Steven Epstein Cristiana Bastos. Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. 224 pp.$27.95 cloth. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Altman, Dennis. 1999 . Globalization, Political Economy, and HIV/AIDS. Theory and Society 28 (4...

... University Press. 110 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law able populations. Examples abound. Substantial resources are spent to protect “innocent victims” of blood-borne diseases like HIV, while efforts like syringe-exchange programs for intravenous drug users are under- funded or even...

..., No. 1, February 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Duke University Press. 110 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law able populations. Examples abound. Substantial resources are spent to protect “innocent victims” of blood-borne diseases like HIV, while efforts like syringe-exchange programs...

...- Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 27, No. 1, February 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Duke University Press. 110 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law able populations. Examples abound. Substantial resources are spent to protect “innocent victims” of blood-borne diseases like HIV...

...- Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 27, No. 1, February 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Duke University Press. 110 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law able populations. Examples abound. Substantial resources are spent to protect “innocent victims” of blood-borne diseases like HIV...

...- Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 27, No. 1, February 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Duke University Press. 110 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law able populations. Examples abound. Substantial resources are spent to protect “innocent victims” of blood-borne diseases like HIV...