AIDS: The Politics of Survival

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In one short decade, the politics of AIDS has become the politics of survival. In a world whose social order is changing before our eyes, AIDS insistently brings new meaning to the age-old question of what it is we must do to survive-as individuals, as families, as communities, as nations, as members of an interdependent world. This book brings together a collection of articles that frankly discuss what it will take to stop the AIDS epidemic and deal with the devastation it has already wrought. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgments Table of Contents Introduction Section I: The Politics of Aids 1: The Politics of Aids Section II: Aids: Community Survival in the United States Introduction 2: Aids Prevention in the United States: Lessons from the First Decade 3: Epidemic in the War Zone: AIDS and Community Survival in New York City 4: Pediatric Aids in the United States: Epidemiological Reality Versus Government Policy Section III: Women and Aids Introduction 5: More Than Mothers and Whores: Redefining the Aids Prevention Needs of Women 6: Women and Aids in Zimbabwe: The Making of an Epidemic 7: Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Migrant Labor in South Africa Section IV: Solidarity and Aids Introduction 8: Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Cuba: The Public Health Response of a Third World Country 9: We Are All People Living with Aids: Myths and Realities of Aids in Brazil 10: Global Aids: Critical Issues for Prevention in the 1990s Section V: The Histories of Aids Introduction 11: Thinking and Rethinking Aids: Implications for Health Policy 12: Understanding Aids: Historical Interpretations and the Limits of Biomedical Individualism Contributors