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Présentation de l'éditeur : "L'auteur fait un état des lieux de la maladie, et souligne les différents problèmes éthiques qu'elle soulève. L'Afrique est le continent le plus touché par la maladie. Et les femmes africaines présentent des risques très élevés d'infection et représentent 59 % des adultes ayant le VIH-sida. Considérée comme une maladie de la honte, les personnes atteintes de sida dévoilent difficilement leur état. Ce qui réduit étroitement les stratégies à mettre en place pour l'éradication de la maladie. S'il n'existe encore aucun vaccin contre le VIH-sida, il existe actuellement des thérapies, surtout des antirétroviraux, capables de réduire la charge virale et de transformer le sida en une maladie chronique."

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome --- Ethics, Medical --- Sida --- prevention & control --- Aspect sanitaire --- Aspect social --- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - Africa --- Ethics, Medical - Africa --- prevention & control.

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HIV-positive persons --- Human-animal relationships --- AIDS (Disease) --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- HIV-infected persons --- HIV patients --- HIV-sero-positive persons --- HIV-seropositive persons --- People living with HIV/AIDS --- Positive persons, HIV --- -Sero-positive persons, HIV --- -Seropositive persons, HIV --- -Patients --- Patients

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This series of books is about the nature of cancer and retroviral diseases, including AIDS, their presentation and the challenges associated with their control, especially in the low- and middle-income countries. Anxiety about these diseases is a global phenomenon, and so also is the confusion about their origins. Studies of Egyptian mummies in paleopathology have documented the ancient occurrence of cancer, but not for AIDS and allied disorders, for which a role of modern lifestyle is more likely. These diseases share a background of worldwide variability of opulence and poverty, rather than heredity, in their manifestation and control. In these days of unprecedented advances in cancer and HIV/AIDS discoveries, it is easy to forget the not-so-long-ago humble beginning of cancer and HIV/AIDS research. This book covers what we know of cancer, beginning in the antiquity to its more recent recognition as a public health challenge, the global nature of the struggle against it, including the contributions from the “Golden Age” of cancer research in Africa. It also reviews the emergence of HIV/AIDS as a mysterious killer of young men in affluent societies, and its transformation to a pandemic, with significant association with poverty, deprivation, and its transformation to a disease of global challenge. Much of the information on oncology concentrates on the nature of the disease in the in developed countries, where emphasis tends to be on adult cancers, and less so on those of childhood and adolescence, an important population group in countries of limited resources. Furthermore, much of the available cancer control information reflects expensive and often-unaffordable curative practices of well-endowed nations, rather than public health approaches, which may be more relevant and appropriate for much of the rest of the world. This book is the work of an extensively traveled oncologist and human retrovirology enthusiast with an international educational and professional background in resource poor and developed countries, who therefore, is able to compare and contrast health related observations and challenges in diverse settings. Practicing and academic physicians in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe, Asia, South America and Africa, who are facing the challenge of cancer and AIDS as their populations transition from traditional to more affluent lifestyles, will find this series of books particularly informative. Oncologists, retrovirologists and others in developed countries, who are concerned about the global impact of cancer and AIDS, and are promoting related global health interventions, should read this collection, the topic of which is also relevant to officials of international agencies and resource-limited national public health policy units.

Epidemiology. --- Environmental Medicine. --- Geography. --- Oncology. --- Environmental Health. --- Economic Geography. --- Cancer Research. --- Tumors --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Diseases --- Public health --- AIDS (Disease) --- Cancer. --- Cancers --- Carcinoma --- Malignancy (Cancer) --- Malignant tumors --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Environmental health. --- Economic geography. --- Cancer research. --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Geography --- Commercial geography --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Cancer research --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects

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HIV-positive persons --- AIDS (Disease) --- HIV infections --- Social conditions. --- Patients --- Social aspects. --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- HIV (Viruses) infections --- HTLV-III infections --- HTLV-III-LAV infections --- Human T-lymphotropic virus III infections --- Lentivirus infections --- Sexually transmitted diseases --- HIV-infected persons --- HIV patients --- HIV-sero-positive persons --- HIV-seropositive persons --- People living with HIV/AIDS --- Positive persons, HIV --- -Sero-positive persons, HIV --- -Seropositive persons, HIV --- -Patients

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This book gathers a series of pivotal papers on the development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine published in the last two decades. Accompanied by extensive comments putting the material into an up-to-date context, all three parts of the book offer a broad overview of the numerous unsuccessful attempts made in recent years to develop a preventive HIV vaccine. Providing a detailed review and analysis of studies published from 1998 to the present day, it examines the likely reasons for the failure to develop an HIV vaccine despite multi-million dollar investments.

HIV (Viruses) --- AIDS (Disease) --- Treatment. --- Research. --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- AIDS-associated retrovirus --- AIDS virus --- ARV (Viruses) --- HTLV-III (Viruses) --- HTLV-III-LAV (Viruses) --- Human immunodeficiency viruses --- Human T-cell leukemia virus III --- Human T-cell lymphotropic virus III --- Human T-lymphotropic virus III --- IDAV (Viruses) --- Immunodeficiency-associated virus --- LAV (Viruses) --- LAV-HTLV-III (Viruses) --- Lymphadenopathy-associated virus --- T-lymphotrophic virus III, Human --- HTLV (Viruses) --- Vaccines. --- Virology. --- Vaccine. --- Microbiology --- Biologicals --- VIH (Virus) --- ARV (Virus) --- HIV (Virus) --- HTLV-III (Virus) --- HTLV-III-LAV (Virus) --- Sida (Virus) --- Virus de la immunodeficiència humana --- Virus de la sida --- Infeccions per VIH --- Sida