HIV/AIDS in Europe
Subtitle: Moving from Death Sentence to Chronic Disease Management
Publisher: World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Published: January 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9789289022842
Subjects: HIV / AIDS; Medical research; Europe; AIDS & HIV; Diseases; Public Health; Medical
Description: Tells the story of HIV/AIDS in Europe from a broad variety of perspectives: bio-medical, social, cultural, economic and political. The authors are leading experts from across the region and include both the infected and the affected, be they doctors or former drug users, United Nations employees or gay men, public health researchers or community activits. They describe how, from the first documented cases in 1981 to the present era of antiretroviral management, controlling the human inmmunodeficiency virus in Europe has provided elusive.