Full Description
Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic is a unique firsthand account from three public health leaders of CDC's early response to AIDS. Drawing in part on interviews from the CDC's AIDS oral history project, the authors trace the evolution of AIDS from newly recognized disease to pandemic. The first section outlines the earliest days of the epidemic within the United States and the initial prevention strategies. The second section expands the borders of the response to Africa and Thailand, where CDC conducted its first international work on AIDS. The final section closes with an overview of the scientific and public health advancements that followed and the historic community activism that spurred essential funding and partnerships for the development of life-saving interventions.
Authentic and insightful, Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic provides an authoritative account of an epidemic and its central role in the expansion of global public health.
Contents
Prologue
Section I. From Unexplained Illness to Expanding Epidemic
Chapter 1. CDC and Outbreak Response
Chapter 2. The Beginning
Chapter 3. Surveillance: The Cornerstone of the Early Response
Chapter 4. Homosexual Men
Chapter 5. Heterosexual Men and Women and Injection Drug Users
Chapter 6. Haitian Americans and Haiti
Chapter 7. Mothers and Infants
Chapter 8. Blood and Blood Products
Chapter 9. HIV: Discovery, Diagnosis, and Disease
Chapter 10. Responding to Fears: Real and Imagined Threats
Chapter 11. Making Predictions
Section II. CDC and the Early International Response to AIDS
Chapter 12. Working Internationally
Chapter 13. Project SIDA in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Chapter 14. Jonathan Mann: Past as Prologue
Chapter 15. HIV-2 and Project RETRO-CI in Cote d'Ivoire
Chapter 16. The HIV/AIDS Collaboration in Thailand
Section III. The Modern AIDS Era
Chapter 17. Advances in Science and Public Health
Chapter 18. Origins
Chapter 19. Increased Understanding, Improved Outcomes
Chapter 20. CDC in the Modern AIDS Era
Chapter 21. WHO and the Evolving AIDS Pandemic
Chapter 22. CDC and the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Epilogue
