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Community Ideas for Improving the Response to the Domestic HIV Epidemic :.
Author: Community Ideas for Improving the Response to the Domestic HIV Epidemic
Author: Executive Office of the President of the United StatesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494962920
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
At the beginning of his Administration, President Obama instructed the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP), a component of the Domestic Policy Council (DPC), to develop a National HIV/AIDS Strategy and re-focus our response to the HIV epidemic in the United States. The President directed that this strategy be driven by three primary goals: 1. Prevent new HIV infections. 2. Increase access to care and optimize health outcomes. 3. Reduce HIV-related health disparities. From the beginning, ONAP recognized that community involvement was essential in creating a more effective strategy for combating HIV/AIDS in America. To achieve this undertaking, ONAP developed a comprehensive approach for gathering public input and ensuring that ideas from individuals living with HIV, as well as other stakeholders and interested parties, were reflected in the Nation's roadmap for moving forward. ONAP conducted 14 community discussions in locations across the United States and its territories and spoke with more than 4,200 people. ONAP also solicited recommendations for the strategy through the White House Web site. Over 1,000 written recommendations for the National HIV/ AIDS Strategy were submitted to ONAP from the community discussions or Web-related submissions. This report is a summary of these community recommendations.
Community Ideas for Improving the Response to the Domestic HIV Epidemic
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
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This report summarizes a national conversation about HIV/AIDS with the American people. It reflects concerns among Americans from all parts of the country and all socioeconomic backgrounds. It contains a wide range of ideas for addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic here at home.
Setting Up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings
Author: Ted LankesterPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198806655
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Over half the world's rural population, and many in urban slums, have minimal access to health services. This book describes how to set up new, and develop existing, community-based health care for, by and with, the community.
Investing in Communities Achieves Results
Author: Rosalia Rodriguez-GarciaPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821397613
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Investing in Communities Achieves Results fills an important gap in the global knowledge on programs addressing HIV and AIDS, providing robust evidence that good results can be achieved by investing in communities with even limited resources.
Community Interventions and AIDS
Author: Edison J. TrickettPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195160231
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
"This book provides a new, interdisciplinary guide to effective behavioral and social science interventions to prevent HIV/AIDS. It aims to strengthen the fight against HIV/AIDS by improving community resources to respond to the disease and its effects. The book both builds on and goes beyond the individually oriented interventions that have provided the first generation of AIDS prevention programs. It brings together both theoretical and practical contributions written by the most active, influential, and respected scholars in the field of HIV/AIDS behavioral prevention."--BOOK JACKET.
The Social Impact of AIDS in the United States
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309046289
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Europe's "Black Death" contributed to the rise of nation states, mercantile economies, and even the Reformation. Will the AIDS epidemic have similar dramatic effects on the social and political landscape of the twenty-first century? This readable volume looks at the impact of AIDS since its emergence and suggests its effects in the next decade, when a million or more Americans will likely die of the disease. The Social Impact of AIDS in the United States addresses some of the most sensitive and controversial issues in the public debate over AIDS. This landmark book explores how AIDS has affected fundamental policies and practices in our major institutions, examining: How America's major religious organizations have dealt with sometimes conflicting values: the imperative of care for the sick versus traditional views of homosexuality and drug use. Hotly debated public health measures, such as HIV antibody testing and screening, tracing of sexual contacts, and quarantine. The potential risk of HIV infection to and from health care workers. How AIDS activists have brought about major change in the way new drugs are brought to the marketplace. The impact of AIDS on community-based organizations, from volunteers caring for individuals to the highly political ACT-UP organization. Coping with HIV infection in prisons. Two case studies shed light on HIV and the family relationship. One reports on some efforts to gain legal recognition for nonmarital relationships, and the other examines foster care programs for newborns with the HIV virus. A case study of New York City details how selected institutions interact to give what may be a picture of AIDS in the future. This clear and comprehensive presentation will be of interest to anyone concerned about AIDS and its impact on the country: health professionals, sociologists, psychologists, advocates for at-risk populations, and interested individuals.
The Role of Community Leaders: Finding Solutions to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Author: Mrs. Octavia Coleman, MHSAPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557244641
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This research project identifies the need for improvements in community based organizations and the responsibility placed on community leaders to provide and execute quality attention to the stigma related issues in African-American communities.
Preventing and Mitigating AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Data and Research Priorities for Arresting AIDS in Sub-Saharan AfricaPublisher: National Academies
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to affect all facets of life throughout the subcontinent. Deaths related to AIDS have driven down the life expectancy rate of residents in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda with far-reaching implications. This book details the current state of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what is known about the behaviors that contribute to the transmission of the HIV infection. It lays out what research is needed and what is necessary to design more effective prevention programs.
Author: Alan Greig