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Politics of Prevention: a Global Crisis in AIDS and Education

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ISBN-10: 074532732X

ISBN-13: 9780745327327

Edition: 2008

Authors: Tania Boler, David Archer, Tania Boler

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AIDS kills over 3 million people every year and nearly 40 million people are infected with HIV worldwide. However, HIV prevention has slipped down the international agenda and meaningful attempts to tackle it are hampered by religious ideology and power struggles. This book includes moving first person accounts highlighting both the devastating impact that AIDS has on communities and the struggles that families face to access treatment and preventative education and medicine. The larger issues and trends in the global fight against AIDS are also studied, including the rise of the controversial abstinence-only movement in the US, which is now being exported to Africa. In response to…    
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Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 8/20/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.46" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Tania Boler is a leading specialist in HIV and Education. Through her work at ActionAid and in the United Nations, she has pioneered seminal research across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

#60;b#62;David Archer#60;/b#62; is a professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, publishing on Earth#8242;s carbon cycle and its interaction with global climate. Dr. Archer has written a series of outreach books on climate change, including #60;i#62;Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, a text for non-science major undergraduates; The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth#8242;s Climate; and The Global Carbon Cycle, a primer in climate science#60;/i#62;. He teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry, and global biogeochemical cycles, and is regular contributor to the climate science blog site…    

The Epidemic Of Prejudice
The Impact Of Aids On Education
A Crisis In Education
The Power Of Prevention
Beyond Prevention
From Personal To Political
Religion Versus Science
The Politics Of Aid
The Power Of Money
Concluding Remarks
Notes
Index