scholarly journals Key populations are the future of the African HIV/AIDS pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Barr ◽  
Geoff P Garnett ◽  
Kenneth H Mayer ◽  
Michelle Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Key Populations ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
The Future ◽  
Hiv Aids

HIV/AIDS

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Iozzio
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Transcendent Experience ◽  
Hiv Aids

This chapter examines how sex figures in the HIV/AIDS pandemic and how the pandemic may be understood in the light of God’s extravagance and hope for the future. Sex is one of those gifts that human beings have received at the hands of a God of extravagance: a God of infinite possibility, copious generosity, and unparalleled solidarity. The very creation is a manifestation of a fecund imagination and God’s own joy writ large enough to witness sexual diversity—from asexual to heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer—among all living beings. In the human community the gift of sex and one’s identity as a sexual being include the purposes and promises of the extravagance that is sexual creativity in and through diversity. This chapter explores what insights theology can bring to the purposes of sex as creativity/generativity and intimacy-building communion/pleasure, and what intuitions theology can bring to the promises of sex as transcendent experience.

Care, Vulnerability, Resilience

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Thornber
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Language ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future ◽  
Language Literature ◽  
Creative Production ◽  
Hiv Aids ◽  
At Home

Chinese-language writers have grappled with the destruction of environments at home and abroad for millennia. Analyzing more closely precisely how they have done so, becoming more attentive to the ecological resonances in creative production of all types, exposes our vulnerabilities at the same time that it points to possibilities for the future, alternative ways of caregiving and giving care, and different types of resilience, if not immunity. This chapter discusses the ecological resonances of two works of Chinese-language literature set against the backdrop of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Taiwanese writer Chu T’ien-wen’sNotes of a Desolate Man(1994) and mainland Chinese writer Yan Lianke’sDream of Ding Village(2006). It analyzes howNotesprobes the intricacies and paradoxes of caregiving and howDreamengages with the interdependence and shared fragility of people and landscapes.

Addressing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: A U.S. Global AIDS Strategy for the Long Term

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Council on Foreign Relations Milbank Memorial Fund
Keyword(s):  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Hiv Aids

Epidemiology of HIV in Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 228-236
Author(s):  
Zeinab Najafi ◽  
Leila Taj ◽  
Omid Dadras ◽  
Fatemeh Ghadimi ◽  
Banafsheh Moradmand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Key Populations ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
First Case ◽  
And Control ◽  
Hiv Aids

: Iran has been one of the active countries fighting against HIV/AIDS in the Middle East during the last decades. Moreover, there is a strong push to strengthen the national health management system concerning HIV prevention and control. In Iran, HIV disease has its unique features, from changes in modes of transmission to improvement in treatment and care programs, which can make it a good case for closer scrutiny. The present review describes the HIV epidemic in Iran from the first case diagnosed until prevention among different groups at risk and co-infections. Not only we addressed the key populations and community-based attempts to overcome HIV-related issues in clinics, but we also elaborated on the efforts and trends in society and the actual behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Being located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, given the countryspecific characteristics, and despite all the national efforts along with other countries in this region, Iran still needs to take extra measures to reduce HIV transmission, especially in health education. Although Iran is one of the pioneers in implementing applicable and appropriate policies in the MENA region, including harm reduction services to reduce HIV incidence, people with substance use disorder continue to be the majority of those living with HIV in the country. Similar to other countries in this region, the HIV prevention and control programs aim at 90-90-90 targets to eliminate HIV infection and reduce the transmission, especially the mother-to-child transmission and among other key populations.

scholarly journals In search of therapeutic candidates for HIV/AIDS: rational approaches, design strategies, structure–activity relationship and mechanistic insights

RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (29) ◽  
pp. 17936-17964
Author(s):  
Dinesh Kumar ◽  
Pooja Sharma ◽  
Shabu ◽  
Ramandeep Kaur ◽  
Maloba M. M. Lobe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structure Activity Relationship ◽  
Activity Relationship ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Structure Activity ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
Hiv Aids

The HIV/AIDS pandemic is a serious threat to the health and development of mankind, which has affected about 37.9 million people worldwide.

scholarly journals A strategy for the management of HIV/ AIDS in the health sector of the city of Johannesburg

Curationis ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Barnard ◽  
M. Muller
Keyword(s):  
Content Validity ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Intersectoral Collaboration ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Developmental Phase ◽  
Validity Index ◽  
Content Validity Index ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
The City ◽  
Hiv Aids

The HIV/AIDS pandemic is posing major challenges to all sectors in South Africa, including the health sector of the city of Johannesburg. The health sector of the city of Johannesburg, as a result of the pandemic, is faced with increasing demands on its scarce resources at a time of major reform at local government level including transformation of the health sector. The overall objective of the study is to explore and describe a strategy for the management of HIV/AIDS by the health sector of the city of Johannesburg. An exploratory, descriptive and quantitative research design was utilized and the UNAIDS “Guide to the strategic planning process for a national response to HIV/AIDS” (1998), was employed to formulate the strategy. The content validity of the strategy was determined according to the process originally described by Lynn (1986) and adopted by Muller (in Booyens, 1998:607-609). The research was conducted in two phases. The first phase, the developmental phase, involved the exploration and description of the theoretical framework and the response to the pandemic, and formulation of a draft strategy. The second phase, the quantification phase, involved the assertion of the content of the strategy by a group of experts and determination of the content validity index (CV1). The final strategy focused on the following: to lead and facilitate intersectoral collaboration; to strengthen primary health care services to provide comprehensive community-based care; prevention of new infections; community mobilization towards prevention, non-discrimination and non stigmatization and empowerment of the health sector to deal with the AIDS .pandemic. The CVI results showed that the average content validity index determined during this study was adequate: full score (1.0) for acceptability and technical soundness, and 0.89 for feasibility and perceived affordability. The strategy formulated for the management of HI V/A1DS by the health sector of the city of Johannesburg is therefore acceptable, technically sound and feasible and perceived as affordable. It was finally recommended that the strategy be adopted for implementation within the health sector of the city of Johannesburg.

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