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.
Table of Contents
PrologueSection I. From Unexplained Illness to Expanding Epidemic Chapter 1. CDC and Outbreak ResponseChapter 2. The BeginningChapter 3. Surveillance: The Cornerstone of the Early ResponseChapter 4. Homosexual MenChapter 5. Heterosexual Men and Women and Injection Drug UsersChapter 6. Haitian Americans and HaitiChapter 7. Mothers and InfantsChapter 8. Blood and Blood ProductsChapter 9. HIV: Discovery, Diagnosis, and DiseaseChapter 10. Responding to Fears: Real and Imagined ThreatsChapter 11. Making PredictionsSection II. CDC and the Early International Response to AIDS Chapter 12. Working InternationallyChapter 13. Project SIDA in the Democratic Republic of CongoChapter 14. Jonathan Mann: Past as PrologueChapter 15. HIV-2 and Project RETRO-CI in Cote d'IvoireChapter 16. The HIV/AIDS Collaboration in ThailandSection III. The Modern AIDS Era Chapter 17. Advances in Science and Public HealthChapter 18. OriginsChapter 19. Increased Understanding, Improved OutcomesChapter 20. CDC in the Modern AIDS EraChapter 21. WHO and the Evolving AIDS PandemicChapter 22. CDC and the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)Epilogue
