Forty years of HIV/AIDS narratives: what’s next?

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-196
Author(s):  
Daniel Maroun
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Literary Transmission ◽  
Hiv Aids ◽  
Herve Guibert

This essay proposes to look across HIV/AIDS narratives in order to trace a larger relationship between the onset, development, and perceived disappearance of both HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS literature - what I dub its literary epidemiology. I aim to trace and compare both the literary transmission and depiction of HIV/AIDS in the major novels of this genre by authors like Hélène Laygues, Michel Simonin, Hervé Guibert, Erik Rémès, Guillaume Dustan, Tristan Garcia, and Camille Genton. Such a study affords a better understanding of the concepts of life, death, and what the future holds for a literature centered on a disease. This approach offers readers a novel perspective on the literary past and future of French HIV/AIDS literature.

The future of the US response to global HIV/AIDS

The Lancet ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 382 (9894) ◽  
pp. 751-753
Author(s):  
Robert E Black
Keyword(s):  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
Hiv Aids

A Better and Healthier Time to Be Alive than Ever

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Sandro Galea
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Know How ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Hiv Aids

This chapter discusses how the time of the COVID-19 pandemic was also a time when the world, in many respects, had never been better—or healthier. In a number of key areas—from life expectancy, to declines in poverty, to reductions in preventable diseases like HIV/AIDS—it was, and is, a more favorable time to be alive than any other point in recorded history. All these advances was a byproduct of foundational forces unfolding over time, forces like industrialization, global development, urbanization, and political changes. However, the incidental nature of this success has meant that we have yet to fully acknowledge why it occurred, which hinders our ability to advance it in the future. Why do we need to know how we got here? First, our understanding of the causes of health shapes our investment in health. America's investment in healthcare comes at the expense of their investment in the foundational drivers of health. The second reason is that if we do not understand the true causes of health, we will be unable to build a world that is ready for the next pandemic.

The future of HIV/AIDS in Africa: a shared responsibility

The Lancet ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 377 (9772) ◽  
pp. 1133-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C Quinn ◽  
David Serwadda
Keyword(s):  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
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.

Rights of vulnerable people and the future of HIV/AIDS

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Keyword(s):  
Vulnerable People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Patient’s Cancer Categorization Based On Jaccard and Venn Techniques

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Nurul Aswa Omar ◽  
Riswan Efendi ◽  
Norfaradilla Wahid ◽  
Afiq Luqman Mohd Yasin
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Jaccard Index ◽  
Venn Diagram ◽  
Know How ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
The Future ◽  
Patient Will ◽  
Diagram Techniques ◽  
Hiv Aids

Under some circumstances, hospitals and clinics need to know the preliminary patient’s disease categorization, such as H1N1, Dengue, HIV/AIDS and others. However, categorizing patients will be useful in the future if the hospitals  properly recorded their patient criteria and crucial details such as patient’s name, symptoms, temperature and others. There are many benefits by grouping the patients together such as the hospitals will know how to provide an appropriate medicine to the patient, which patient will get the highest priority and should be quarantined.  It is very important to know how to group the patients by using their symptoms detected. This study will focus on patients with cancer problems using Jaccard index and Venn diagram techniques. Their data will be collected from a hospital and the patients are selected randomly. Patients with lungs, brain and breast cancer will be selected in this study.

scholarly journals HIV/AIDS Research for the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Gallo
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Aids Research ◽  
Hiv Aids
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