Research Catalog

Title

AIDS, drugs, and society / edited by Anna Alexandrova.

Publication

New York : International Debate Education Association, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Alexandrova, Anna, 1976-
• International Debate Education Association.

Description

296 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Sourcebook on contemporary controversies

Uniform Title

Sourcebook on contemporary controversies.

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) > Prevention
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention & control
• Drug addicts > Diseases
• Drug addicts > Health and hygiene
• Health Policy
• Human Rights
• Intravenous drug abuse > Health aspects
• Intravenous drug abusers > Diseases
• Intravenous drug abusers > Health and hygiene
• Substance Abuse, Intravenous
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Background readings concerning intravenous drug use and HIV. Harm reduction: history, definition and practice / Diane Riley, Pat O'Hare ; The interconnected epidemics of drug dependency and AIDS / Larry Gostin ; Interventions to prevent HIV risk behaviors ; HIV/AIDS and the drug culture: shattered lives / Elizabeth Hagan, Joan Gormley -- Policy aspects. The control of drugs / Michael Gossop ; Drug legalization, harm reduction and drug policy / Robert Dupont, Eric Voth ; To take up arms against the sea of drugs / Alex Wodak -- Human rights aspects. Impact of legal and public policy measures to control drug use on human rights / Norbert Gilmore ; Clinical progress and the future of HIV exceptionalism / Ronald Bayer ; Some thoughts on AIDS exceptionalism and public health sentimentalism / Scott Burris - Sources. Interventions for injecting drug users / Abu Abdul-Quader ... [et al.] ; Syringe exchanges: a public health response to problem drug use discussion / G. M. Cox ... [et al.] ; Decline in self-reported high-risk injection-related behaviors among HIV-seropositive participants in the Baltimore Needle Exchange Program / John Vertefeuille ... [et al.] - Human rights treaties and guidelines. Declaration of commitment on HIV/AIDS, global crisis, global action ; Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 3, Article 19, Article 25 ; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Article 12 ; Extracts from the General Comment No.14 to the Article 12 ; The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Article 9, Article 17, Article 26 ; The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Article 5.1, Article 8.1 ; The International Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, Article 14 ; International guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Guideline 3, Guideline 4 -- Glossary.

ISBN

0970213026

LCCN

2002022156 ^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library