Title: AIDS in Asia : a continent in peril /
Authors: Hunter, Susan S.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Colonialism history; Socioeconomic Factors; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome epidemiology; HIV Infections epidemiology; AIDS (Disease) Asia.; Asia epidemiology
Abstract: "The spread of AIDS in Asia is accelerating so quickly that it will soon overtake growth of the disease in Africa. Over the next two decades, the containment of Asia's epidemics will be crucial to global stability because the region is home to 60 percent of the world's population. At the crucial moment - the tipping point - when the spread of AIDS in this region is beginning to gain worldwide recognition, Susan Hunter makes clear the catastrophic threat AIDS poses to Asia and the world, and draws on her experience in other countries to map out steps that must be taken to contain it."--Jacket.
Contents: 1. Asian peril, global peril -- 2. AIDS in Asia : the looming mushroom clouds of infection -- 3. The origin of Asia's states of AIDS : empire and overthrow -- 4. Chaining the elephant : the impact of colonialism -- 5. Asia and the world drug industry -- 6. Gender, religion, and economics in the East -- 7. Fulfilling heaven's mandate : the impact of AIDS on children -- 8. As Asia goes ...