AIDS and the policy struggle in the United States / Patricia D. Siplon.

With an initial chapter that clearly follows the tangled historical string from the first realizations of a medical emergency to today's overwhelming worldwide epidemical crisis, the author goes on to look at how medical treatments for AIDS have changed and grown; how blood policies were formed...

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Main Author: Siplon, Patricia D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2002]
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Table of Contents:
  • Nature of the policy process
  • New drugs, new rules, new relationships
  • Blood policy in the age of AIDS
  • Dueling models of AIDS prevention; harm reduction and abstinence
  • New means of providing for the sick; Ryan White CARE act
  • Us and them; AIDS as a foreign policy issue
  • Conclusion; struggling toward the future.