Research Catalog

Title

AIDS and women's reproductive health / edited by Lincoln C. Chen, Jaime Sepúlveda Amor, and Sheldon J. Segal ; technical editor, Judith Masslo Anderson.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, ©1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chen, Lincoln C.
• Sepúlveda Amor, Jaime.
• Segal, Sheldon J. (Sheldon Jerome)

Description

viii, 208 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.

Series Statement

• Reproductive biology
• The Language of science

Uniform Title

• Reproductive biology
• Language of science

Subject

• AIDS (Disease)
• Women > Diseases
• Women > Health and hygiene
• AIDS (Disease) in pregnancy
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > transmission
• Pregnancy Complications, Infectious > prevention & control
• Reproduction
• Risk Factors
• Women's Health
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• AIDS (Disease) in pregnancy
• Women > Diseases
• Women > Health and hygiene
• Complications infectieuses de la grossesse > prévention et contrôle
• Facteurs de risque
• Femmes
• Reproduction
• Syndrome d'immunodéficience acquise > transmission
• HIV-Infektion
• Frau
• Epidemiologie
• Kongress
• Krankheitsübertragung
• Prävention

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Proceedings of an international workshop on AIDS and Reproductive Biology, held October 29-November 2, 1990, in Bellagio, Italy"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: An Overview of AIDS and Women's Health / Lincoln C. Chen, Jaime Sepulveda and Sheldon J. Segal -- Epidemiology and Policy. AIDS: Challenges to Epidemiology in the 1990s / Jonathan M. Mann. AIDS and Reproductive Health: Women's Perspectives / Katherine D. LaGuardia. Policy and Legal Aspects of AIDS Interventions: Individual Rights and Social Responsibilities / Harvey V. Fineberg -- Risk Factors in Transmission. Factors Affecting Female-to-Male Transmission of HIV-1: Implications of Transmission Dynamics for Prevention / Francis A. Plummer, Stephen Moses and Jackoniah O. Ndinya-Achola. Epidemiological Synergy: Interrelationships Between HIV Infection and Other STDs / Judith Wasserheit. The Public Health Significance of Sexually Transmitted Diseases for HIV Infection in Africa / Seth Berkey. Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Syphilis Infection in Women of Childbearing Age in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia / Debrework Zewdie and Nebiat Tafari.
• Contraception, Family Planning, and HIV / David J. Hunter and Japheth K. Mati. Human Sexuality and AIDS: The Case of Male Bisexuality / Richard G. Parker and Manuel Carballo -- Perinatal Transmission. Mother-to-Fetus/Infant Transmission of HIV-1: Scientific Evidence and Research Needs / Olav Meirik. HIV Perinatal Transmission and Reproductive Health / Phyllis J. Kanki, Mbowa Kalengayi and Souleymane MBoup. Methods for Decreasing HIV Transmission to Infants / Sally Jody Heymann -- Interventions. An Overview of AIDS Interventions in High-Risk Groups: Commercial Sex Workers and Their Clients / Peter Lamptey. Intervention Research Needs for AIDS Prevention Among Commercial Sex Workers and Their Clients / Barbara O. de Zalduondo, Mauricio Hemandez Avila and Patricia Uribe Zuniga. Diversity in Commercial Sex Work Systems: Preliminary Findings from Mexico City and Their Implications for AIDS Interventions / Mauricio Hernandez Avila, Patricia Uribe Zuniga and Barbara O. de Zalduondo.

ISBN

• 0306442000
• 9780306442001

LCCN

92014052

OCLC

• ocm25675568
• 25675568
• SCSB-9101330

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library