Tag: HIV

Free Download HIV Interactions with Dendritic Cells: Infection and Immunity By Anthony L. Cunningham M.D., Andrew Harman Ph.D. (auth.), Li Wu, Olivier Schwartz (eds.)
2013 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 1461444322 | PDF | 5 MB
Given rapid research progress and advance of the techniques in studying HIV interactions with host cells and factors, there is a critical need for a book on HIV interactions with DCs. The proposed book will aim for a broad readership to facilitate HIV/AIDS research and provide a practical tool for HIV researchers to continuously address novel questions. Specifically, the editors will summarize the literature in this field and provide critical analysis and future directions. International researchers will be invited as contributors of the book, highlighting authors who have contributed significantly to the field from different angles and aspects of virology, cell biology and immunology, etc.

Free Download Elanah Uretsky, "Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China"
English | 2016 | pages: 281 | ISBN: 0804797536, 0804795762 | PDF | 12,7 mb
Doing business in China can be hazardous to your health. Occupational Hazards follows a group of Chinese businessmen and government officials as they conduct business in Beijing and western Yunnan Province, exposing webs of informal networks that help businessmen access political favors. These networks are built over liquor, cigarettes, food, and sex, turning risky behaviors into occupational hazards.

Free Download S. Kartikeyan, R.N. Bharmal, R.P. Tiwari, "HIV and AIDS:: Basic Elements and Priorities"
English | 2007 | pages: 410 | ISBN: 9048174457, 1402057881 | PDF | 3,5 mb
In June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first evidence of a new disease that would later become known as Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV and AIDS: Basic Elements and Priorities is a concise collection of all aspects of this disease, and is a source of readily available knowledge. All currently advocated preventive measures such as health education, condom use, safer sex practices, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections have been incorporated.

Free Download Ann O’Leary PhD, "Beyond Condoms: Alternative Approaches to HIV Prevention"
English | 2002 | pages: 255 | ISBN: 1475776861, 0306467313 | PDF | 2,6 mb
This book reflects cutting-edge science that has only recently become available. It is a comprehensive assortment of new approaches to HIV prevention. It describes a set of prevention strategies that do not solely rely on male condoms, including: the use of HIV antibody testing and `negotiated safety’, abstinence, control of sexually transmitted diseases, treatment advances as prevention, and psychopharmacology to assist with behavior change. It is of interest to HIV prevention scientists, health psychologists, health educators, and public health workers in the communities at risk.

Free Download Timothy James Carey, "Muslim and Catholic Responses to HIV and AIDS in Kenya "
English | ISBN: 1498578284 | 2018 | 228 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In the capital city of Nairobi, Kenya, African Catholic and Sunni Muslim leaders addressing HIV and AIDS are faced with a unique challenge. On the one hand, they are called to attend to the spiritual wellbeing of the infected individual; on the other hand, they are increasingly charged with serving as the stewards of the physical bodies of those negatively affected by such a physiologically debilitating and social stigmatized disease through certain identifiable interreligious traditions common to both faiths.