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Author World Summit of Ministers of Health on "Programmes for AIDS Prevention" (1988 : Westminster, London, England)

Title AIDS prevention and control : invited presentations and papers from the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention / jointly organized by the World Health Organization and the United Kingdom government, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London, 26-28 January, 1988
Published Geneva : World Health Organization ; Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, [1988]
©1988
©1988

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Description xxii, 169 pages ; 25 cm
Contents AIDS -- A Global Challenge -- Global AIDS: epidemiology, impact, projections, global strategy / J Mann -- Modes of transmission: the basis for prevention strategies / Sir Donald Acheson -- AIDS Prevention through Health Promotion -- Introduction / A Meyer -- National AIDS information programme in France / A Pompidou -- Planning AIDS education for the public in Uganda / S I Okware -- Brazil's educational programme on AIDS prevention / L G de M Rodrigues -- Preventing AIDS through general public education: experience from the United Kingdom / S Hagard -- Theory into Practice: Health Promotion Programmes for Specific Groups -- Introduction / J Obetsebe-Lamptey -- Messages addressed to women as a target audience / P Clarke -- Adolescents: knowledge, attitudes and practice / L de Neergaard -- Developing materials for culture groups / G Smallwood -- AIDS prevention in the Netherlands: intravenous drug users as a target group / H Moerkerk -- Reaching the target population: female prostitutes / E Ngugi -- The hot rubber story / R Staub -- Overview of Part III presentations / J Obetsebe-Lamptey -- The Critical Role of Counselling -- Introduction / M Carballo -- Counselling before HIV testing / B Harris -- Counselling after HIV testing / G Ornalas Hall -- Counselling of persons with AIDS / D Miller -- Arming Health Workers for the AIDS Challenge -- Introduction / D Tarantola -- Knowledge and fear among health workers: the San Francisco experience / P A Volberding -- Health workers, the community and AIDS / M O Ngandu
Summary This Summit, organized jointly by the World Health Organization and the United Kingdom Government, brought together ministers of health and other experts from over 140 countries to exchange experiences and describe their efforts to combat AIDS. The presentations contained in this volume cover a broad range of topics including the epidemiology of AIDS, the current global status of the disease and possible future trends, transmission of HIV, and special features of AIDS prevention and control programmes around the world. The central theme of this World Summit is the role of public education in the fight against AIDS. With tried and trusted vaccines and cures unlikely for a number of years, educating the public currently represents the best chance of containing the spread of the disease. The London Declaration, which was adopted unanimously at the Summit, highlights the need to broaden the scope of information programmes, strengthen the exchange of information and experience among countries, and encourage throughout the world social tolerance for persons infected with HIV and with AIDS
Analysis AIDS education
AIDS prevention
International comparisons
Overseas item
Statistics
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes index
Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention -- Congresses.
AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention.
AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention & control -- Congresses
AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control.
Genre/Form Congress.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Author World Health Organization, sponsor
LC no. 88017944
ISBN 0080361420
9241561157
9780080361420
9789241561150