HIV/AIDS : a very short introduction /
As of 2004 an estimated 40 million people were living with HIV/AIDS, and about 20 million had died. Despite advances, there is still no cure, and the drugs are expensive and toxic. In the developing world, especially parts of Africa, life expectancy has plummeted to below 35 years, causing a serious...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Very short introductions ;
174. |
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Table of Contents:
- The emergence and state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
- How HIV/AIDS works and scientific responses
- The factors that shape different epidemics
- Illness, deaths, and populations
- The impact of AIDS on production and people
- AIDS and politics
- Responding to HIV/AIDS
- The next 25 years.