When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings
together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical …

The development of topically applied products capable of preventing vaginal and rectal
transmission of HIV-1 has been on-going for nearly 20 years. Despite this, only one clinical …

The purpose of this article is to review prominent studies on HIV drug-resistance in mothers
and their infants after the use of antiretroviral drugs to prevent mother-to-child-transmission …

In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how
medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and …

Introduction: In most industrialized countries, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
remains a formal contraindication to breastfeeding. However, for the past 9 years, the World …

Music, Health, and Power offers an original, on-the-ground analysis of the role that music
plays in promoting healthy communities. The book brings the reader inside the world of …

Women living with HIV are stigmatized and discriminated against. They often wish to have
children, but they are subjected to the practice of forced (involuntary) sterilization in at least …

The World Health Organization (WHO) revised its global recommendations on treating
pregnant women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) with antiretrovirals …

Introduction: Early infant diagnosis (EID) confers substantial benefit to HIV infected and HIV
uninfected infants and to programmes providing prevention of mother to child transmission …

Abstract In July 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued formal revisions of its
guidelines on the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy for HIV. The new guidelines …