E-DRUG: New Brochure released: AIDS Normalization in the North Tragedy in the South?
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Whereas HIV/Aids is regarded as a controllable chronic disease in the
western world - not the least because of the availability of effective
medication -, the situation for large parts of the world´s population is
dramatic: In Africa, south of the Sahara, 23 million people are infected,
among them about two million children. However, the infection figures are
also on the rise in Eastern Europe.
The brochure published by BUKO Pharma-Kampagne / Germany - does not only
give you recent figures and facts concerning the worldwide spread of HIV. It also summarizes the latest developments in the fields of HIV-prevention,
therapy and research. Interviews with experts on the situations in India,
South Africa, Germany and the Ukaine present first-hand information and
illustrate the problems encountered in prevention work or as regards access
to effective therapies.
Contents:
· Aids: Then and Now
· HIV/Aids-Prevention Today
· The Enemy Within: Aids and how it is treated
· Tuberculosis and Aids - a lethal Combination
· Challenges for Prevention and Therapy (Interview about the situation in South Africa)
· Played Down: Aids in India
· Stigma can be Deadly (Interview about the situation in India)
· Figures and Assumptions
· Not only Fringe Groups are affected (Interview about the situation in the Ukraine)
· Cheap and without Rubber (Interview about Aids and forced prostitution in Germany)
· High prices cost Lives
· Research: Alternatives to the Patent System
· Vaccination against Aids: No success in Sight
· To Benefit from Plenty: Patent Pool
· Free-of-Charge Treatment for All (Interview about the situation in Brasil)
· Successful Advocacy - worldwide!
AIDS Normalization in the North Tragedy in the South?
BUKO Pharma-Kampagne / Gesundheit und Dritte Welt e.V.
2009, 30 pages,ISBN 978-3-928879-34-7
For more information please contact our website: www.en.bukopharma.de
Best wishes
Hedwig Diekwisch
BUKO Pharma-Kampagne
August-Bebel-Str. 62
33602 Bielefeld
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)521 60550
Fax: +49 (0)521 - 63789
hdiekwisch@bukopharma.de