The AIDS Pandemic Searching for a Global Response [Paperback]

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization?(WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), using it as a unique lens to trace the?global response to the AIDS pandemic. The authors describe how WHO came initially?to assume leadership of the global response, relate the strategies and approaches WHO?employed over the years, and expound on the factors that led to the Programmes demise?and subsequent formation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

(UNAIDS). The authors examine the global impact of this momentous transition, portray?the current status of the global response to AIDS, and explore the precarious situation?that WHO finds itself in today as a lead United Nations agency in global health.

Several aspects of the global response  the strategies adopted, the roads taken and?not taken, and the lessons learned  can provide helpful guidance to the global health?community as it continues tackling the AIDS pandemic and confronts future global?pandemics.

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The AIDS Pandemic: Searching for a Global Response recounts the global response to the?AIDS pandemic from its inception to today. Policymakers, students, faculty, journalists,?researchers, and health professionals interested in HIV/AIDS, global health, global pandemics,?and the history ol3"