The AIDS Pandemic Searching for a Global Response /

• Main Authors: Merson, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Inrig, Stephen (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Infectious diseases.; Health promotion.; Medicine-History.; Social medicine.; Infectious Diseases.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; History of Medicine.; Medical Sociology.

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), using it as a unique lens to trace the global response to the AIDS pandemic. The authors describe how WHO came initially to assume leadership of the global response, relate the...

Table of Contents:

• The Response Before the Global Response
• The Launch of the Control Program on AIDS
• Creating a Global Response
• Assuming Global Leadership
• Building and Coordinating a Multi-Sectoral Response
• Health, Human Rights, and the GPA
• The Resignation of Jonathan Mann
• The Transition.-Enhancing program delivery
• Containing the global spread of HIV
• Supporting Research.- Addressing Stigma, Discrimination, and Human Rights
• Challenges and Criticisms
• The Challenges of coordination
• Rethinking Global AIDS Governance.- The end of GPA and the launch of UNAIDS
• The Development of UNAIDS.