Science Challenging Aids
Proceedings Based on the 7th International Conference on Aids, Florence, June 1991.
Published in 1992
Book
Hardback
XX, 300 pages
978-3-8055-5485-5 (ISBN)
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AIDS has not only become the most important public health challenge of our time, but has sweeping social, economic and cultural consequences, especially in the developing world where infection rates are increasing markedly. This publication contains papers selected from the 7th International Conference on AIDS. It opens with presentations on three main areas of concern - the impact of biomedical research on the AIDS epidemic, progress and challenges in therapy, and the implications of AIDS in developing countries. Keynote lectures follow, reviewing recent progress in the battle against AIDS in the areas of basic research, clinical research and trials, epidemiology and prevention as well as social and behavioural science. Summary reports conclude the volume.
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Present and future dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, J. Chin; virology of AIDS - biological aspects including co-factors, L. Montagnier; molecular biology of the AIDS virus - ten years of discovery - hope for the future, W.A. Haseltine; cellular pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency viruses types 1 and 2, R.A. Weiss and P.R. Clapham; AIDS-related malignancies, R.C. Gallo; present outlook of clinical trials, I.V.D. Weller; AIDS vaccine, D.P. Bolognesi; the psychosocial aspects of AIDS, M.M. Mhloyi; the impact of AIDS on social, economic health and welfare system - AIDS preserving the family of mankind, M.E. Ankrah; small region of the Env and Tat genes control cellular trophism, cytopathology and replicative properties of HIV-1, C. Cheng-Mayer et al; the development of opportunistic non-Hodgkin's lymphomas in severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patients receiving long-term antiretroviral therapy, J.M. Pluda et al; risk reduction and stabilization of HIV seroprevalence among drug injectors in New York City and Bangkok, Thailand, D.C. Des Jarlais et al; change in AIDS risk behaviours from adolescence and adulthood, A.R. Stiffman et al.