AIDS Between Science and Politics by Piot, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Translator’s Note Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Heterogeneous and Still-Evolving Epidemic

Rapid global spread How are HIV numbers estimated? Generalized and concentrated epidemics The diversification of epidemics Risks and vulnerability Change and continuity

2. Hyperendemic HIV in Southern Africa: The Heritage of Apartheid

Tragedy in the new South Africa The vulnerability of women The drivers of hyperendemic HIV The heritage of apartheid The politics of denial Progress and challenges

3. AIDS as an International Political Issue

The first responses Conceptualization of AIDS The awakening of the multilateral system and the international response 2000/2001: the tipping point Lessons for other health problems

4. A New Type of Transnational Civil Society Movement

The fundamental role of civil society in the AIDS response AIDS and globalization

5. The Right to Treatment

The prehistory of AIDS treatment 1996 to 2000: letting them die Demonstrating the feasibility of antiretroviral treatment in sub-Saharan Africa The first price reductions 2000 to 2001: the turning point Toward universal access The long-term stakes of antiretroviral treatment

6. Combination Prevention

Global, but not universal, declines in HIV incidence Measuring the impact of HIV prevention Combination prevention Focus on high-risk situations Antiretroviral treatment as prevention Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as prevention Male circumcision as prevention Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV HIV prevention in injecting drug users The politics of HIV prevention Structural determinants and sexual violence A renaissance in HIV prevention

7. The Economics of AIDS

Economic drivers of the AIDS epidemic The impact of AIDS on the economy

8. Prominence of Human Rights

The third epidemic The big scare Discrimination How to counter discrimination

9. The Long-Term View

Revisiting the prevention strategy

Notes Index