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Chapter 1. What is the state of the global AIDS epidemic? --
The global AIDS epidemic is a growing threat / Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and World Health Organization --
The global AIDS epidemic is exaggerated / James P. Hogan --
AIDS is devastating Africa / Robert Hecht, et al. --
The prevalence of AIDS in Africa is overstated / Craig Timberg --
AIDS is a crisis in Black America / Claudia Kalb and Andrew Murr --
China must face the possibility of an explosive AIDS epidemic / Richard Burger --
China is confronting HIV/AIDS / Sabin Russell
Chapter 2.
What causes AIDS? --
HIV causes AIDS / Rob Noble --
HIV does not cause AIDS / Christine Maggiore --
HIV spread to humans through the Cameroon bushmeat trade / Mary Carmichael --
HIV spread to humans through African oral polio vaccines / Edward Hooper --
HIV is a man-made product of genetic engineering and medical research / Alan Cantwell --
HIV is primarily transmitted through heterosexual intercourse / Nancy Padian --
Heterosexual transmission of HIV is negligible / Michael Fumento
Chapter 3.
How can the spread of AIDS be controlled? --
An AIDS vaccine would significantly slow the spread of AIDS / International AIDS Vaccine Initiative --
Prospects for an AIDS vaccine are dim / Richard Horton --
Widespread routine HIV testing is needed to control the spread of AIDS / Bernard M.Branson, et al. --
HIV testing alone is ineffective and violates individual rights / Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project --
Abstinence-based AIDS prevention programs effectively stem the spread of AIDS / U.S. Agency for International Development --
Abstinence-based AIDS prevention programs fail to halt the global epidemic / Jonathan Cohen and Tony Tate --
The Catholic Church should endorse condom use to reduce HIV infection / James Carroll --
The Catholic Church must oppose condom use for HIV/AIDS prevention / Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo
Chapter 4.
How should AIDS be treated? --
AIDS drug treatments are deadly / Celia Farber --
The benefits of AIDS drug treatments far outweigh the risks / Bob Funkhouser --
HIV drug resistance is a growing concern / AIDSmeds.com --
Alternative nutritional AIDS treatments are safe and effective / Matthias Rath and Aleksandra Niedzwiecki --
Alternative nutritional AIDS treatments are deadly quackery / Ian Hodgson --
Treating tuberculosis is critical in AIDS interventions / Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator.
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9780737737325
073773731
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073773731
9780737737318
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