HIV/AIDS: Perspective on India
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Reflects on the plague of AIDS. Devastation wrought by the HIV virus in India and Africa; Accounts of the arrival and spread of the disease in Messina; AIDS epidemic compared with the black plague.
- NEWSFRONT: FLORIDA. // Advocate;2/16/88, Issue 492, p25
Reports on the findings of a study on AIDS epidemic in Belle Glade, Florida which confirms scientists' assertions that HIV has been routinely transmitted among residents of the town through sex and contact with infected blood and not by mosquitoes.
- Global AIDS surveillance. // Weekly Epidemiological Record;12/3/99, Vol. 74 Issue 48, p409
Focuses on the number of AIDS cases reported at the height of the epidemic. Decline of reported AIDS cases in selected industrialized countries; Introduction of Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy; Factors causing the development of the disease.
- Humanity's Challenge. Trowbridge, Anne // Humanist;Nov/Dec2000, Vol. 60 Issue 6, p32
Deals with the challenge posed by the AIDS epidemic in Africa to humanity. Statistics on people afflicted with AIDS; Factors which contributed to the spread of AIDS in Africa; Barriers to dealing rationally with AIDS.
- Enemy of the people. LeClerc-Madlala, Suzanne // New Internationalist;Jun99, Issue 313, p35
Focuses on the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Challenges faced by women AIDS educators; Wave of attacks on women living with HIV/AIDS.
- AIDS epidemic still increasing in Africa. // Women's International Network News;Autumn98, Vol. 24 Issue 4, p26
Reports on AIDS infection in Africa. AIDS as one of the leading causes of death in the world; Reduction of HIV prevalence in Uganda; Doubling of infection rate in Botswana; Alarming trend in the transmission rates in countries in Asia, Eastern Europe and South America.
- The health crisis as AIDS devastates Sub-Saharan Africa. // Women's International Network News;Autumn98, Vol. 24 Issue 4, p26
Reports on the AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. Lack of money for health care; Impact of AIDS on Zimbabwe's health system; Grim news about Zimbabwe and Botswana.
- Global Challenges of the AIDS Epidemic: Perspectives. Laurence, Jeffrey // AIDS Patient Care & STDs;Apr99, Vol. 13 Issue 4, p215
Focuses of the AIDS epidemic and the global challenges it poses. Impact of AIDS on all economic classes; Estimated number of adults and children being infected with HIV everyday; Potential mutation of the AIDS virus into a more potent form; Need to prioritize research on an AIDS vaccine.
- Stalking HIV in the red light district. McKeganey, Neil // New Scientist;6/12/93, Vol. 138 Issue 1877, p22
Features the application of statistical methods used by ecologist of counting animals to the epidemological study of HIV in red light districts of Great Britain. Assessment of how many prostitutes are also intravenous drug users; Other areas of research; Statistcal analysis; Limitations; Plans...
- ROVING CAMERA. Gilbert, James // New York Amsterdam News;03/15/2001, Vol. 92 Issue 11, p13
Presents the views of Black New York City residents on the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Importance of involvement in AIDS awareness campaigns; Exposition of people affected with the disease; Need for open dialogue about the pandemic.
