AIDS
By: Viqi Wagner, book editor.
Contributors: Wagner, Viqi, 1953-
Series: Opposing viewpoints series; Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780737737318; 9780737737325
Subjects: AIDS (Disease); AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235, 244-246) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1.; title: What is the state of the global AIDS epidemic? --; title: The global AIDS epidemic is a growing threat -- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and World Health Organization; title: The global AIDS epidemic is exaggerated -- James P. Hogan; title: AIDS is devastating Africa -- Robert Hecht, et al.; title: The prevalence of AIDS in Africa is overstated -- Craig Timberg; title: AIDS is a crisis in Black America -- Claudia Kalb and Andrew Murr; title: China must face the possibility of an explosive AIDS epidemic -- Richard Burger; title: China is confronting HIV/AIDS -- Sabin Russell -- Chapter 2.; title: What causes AIDS? --; title: HIV causes AIDS -- Rob Noble; title: HIV does not cause AIDS -- Christine Maggiore; title: HIV spread to humans through the Cameroon bushmeat trade -- Mary Carmichael; title: HIV spread to humans through African oral polio vaccines -- Edward Hooper; title: HIV is a man-made product of genetic engineering and medical research -- Alan Cantwell; title: HIV is primarily transmitted through heterosexual intercourse -- Nancy Padian; title: Heterosexual transmission of HIV is negligible -- Michael Fumento -- Chapter 3.; title: How can the spread of AIDS be controlled? --; title: An AIDS vaccine would significantly slow the spread of AIDS -- International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; title: Prospects for an AIDS vaccine are dim -- Richard Horton; title: Widespread routine HIV testing is needed to control the spread of AIDS -- Bernard M.Branson, et al.; title: HIV testing alone is ineffective and violates individual rights -- Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project; title: Abstinence-based AIDS prevention programs effectively stem the spread of  AIDS -- U.S. Agency for International Development; title: Abstinence-based AIDS prevention programs fail to halt the global epidemic -- Jonathan Cohen and Tony Tate; title: The Catholic Church should endorse condom use to reduce HIV infection -- James Carroll; title: The Catholic Church must oppose condom use for HIV/AIDS prevention -- Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo -- Chapter 4.; title: How should AIDS be treated? --; title: AIDS drug treatments are deadly -- Celia Farber; title: The benefits of AIDS drug treatments far outweigh the risks -- Bob Funkhouser; title: HIV drug resistance is a growing concern -- AIDSmeds.com; title: Alternative nutritional AIDS treatments are safe and effective -- Matthias Rath and Aleksandra Niedzwiecki; title: Alternative nutritional AIDS treatments are deadly quackery -- Ian Hodgson; title: Treating tuberculosis is critical in AIDS interventions-- Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator.