HIV Treatment and Prevention Technologies in International Perspective
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Author(s): M. Davis and C. Squire
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230238190
Format: hardback
210pp
Price: £55.00
Review Date: 21 February 2010
Review: This edited collection of ten papers comes from a seminar on HIV treatment and prevention, held in 2007 in Sydney, Australia. The papers include: HIV technologies; case studies of technologies of ‘Participation’ and Capacity building’; technologies of treatment, scaling up ART in S. Africa; integrating HIV treatment and prevention; parents’ communication with their children about sex and HIV/AIDS; HIV transitions – consequences of self in an era of medication; antiretroviral treatment and HIV prevention – perspectives of gay men in the UK; gay men and the risk of HIV prevention; HIV pre-exposure prophylactics and the complexities of biomedical prevention; and a final chapter on particularity, potentiation, citizenship and pragmatism.