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Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-07
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  • Publisher: McFarland

In 1999, investigators announced that a single dose of nevirapine, a new antiviral drug, could stop the spread of the AIDS virus from infected mothers to their newborn babies. It was a discovery that "changed the face of AIDS globally" but it came at a high price, after years of scientific research, political conflict, social unrest and the loss of many thousands of lives. This book is the historical account of pediatric AIDS from the first reported cases in the early 1980s to the first effective treatments in the 1990s and then to the prevention of HIV infections altogether. It also includes the firsthand accounts and experiences of children infected with HIV, their families and the physicians who treated them, as well as the scientists who sought to understand the virus, discovered nevirapine's unique properties, and worked tirelessly to get it to the patients who needed it.

Moving Mountains
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 516

Moving Mountains

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-07-17
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  • Publisher: Verso

In this work, Anne-Christine D'Adesky, an award-winning reporter, offers a global analysis of AIDS treatment and prevention, in countries from South Africa to China.

Science, Technology, and Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

Science, Technology, and Democracy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-09-28
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Examines restrictions and potentialities for public access to science and technology decision making.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 536

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Impure Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

Impure Science

Epstein shows the extent to which AIDS research has been a social and political phenomenon and how the AIDS movement has transformed biomedical research practices through its capacity to garner credibility by novel strategies.

Ethical Issues in International Biomedical Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Ethical Issues in International Biomedical Research

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Ethical Issues in International Biomedical Research is the definitive book on the ethics of research involving human subjects in developing countries. Using 21 actual case studies, it covers the most controversial topics, including the ethics of placebo research in Africa, what benefits should be provided to the community after completion of a research trial, how to address conflicts between IRBs in developed and developing countries, and undue inducement of poor people in developing countries. Each case is accompanied by two expert commentaries, written by many of the worlds leading experts in bioethics as well as new voices with research experience in developing countries. No other volume has this scope. Students in bioethics, public and international health, and ethics will find this book particularly useful.

Review of the Fialuridine (FIAU) Clinical Trials
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

Review of the Fialuridine (FIAU) Clinical Trials

In June 1993 a clinical trial of fialuridine (FIAU), a promising new medication for hepatitis B, was abruptly terminated when one of the 15 out-patients participating in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) study was suddenly hospitalized with liver failure. Although all the remaining patients were contacted and told to stop taking their medication, six more subsequently developed severe toxicity. Five patients died, and two others were probably saved from death only by having liver transplants. In response to a request from the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the IOM committee has analyzed the FIAU clinical trials, making recommendations for additional safeguard...

The Search for Antiviral Drugs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

The Search for Antiviral Drugs

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Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic

An estimated forty million people carry the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and five million more become newly infected annually. In recent years, many HIV-infected patients in wealthy nations have enjoyed significantly longer, good-quality lives as a result of antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, most infected individuals live in the poorest regions of the world, where ART is virtually nonexistent. The consequent death toll in these regionsâ€"especially sub-Saharan Africaâ€"is begetting economic and social collapse. To inform the multiple efforts underway to deploy antiretroviral drugs in resource-poor settings, the Institute of Medicine committee was asked to conduct an indepen...