A Decade of HAART: The Development and Global Impact of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199225850 ISBN 13: 9780199225859

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is a therapeutic intervention developed by clinicians and researchers in order to fight the HIV pandemic. It has contributed to a significant reduction in AIDS-related mortality and allowed many previously bed-ridden patients to live healthier, more productive lives. Until the advent of HAART in 1996, a diagnosis of HIV infection was considered a death sentence. A decade later, the disease has been transformed into a serious, yet potentially manageable, medical condition for thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS in the developed world - almost overnight creating a generation of "HIV Survivors" - and forged a global movement to ensure that its Lazarus-like benefit reaches millions more in the developing world.

This book reviews the achievements of HAART over the past decade, and explores the challenges that may arise in the future. It recounts key landmarks in the development and introduction of HAART from the perspective of clinicians, researchers, economists, sociologists, and public policy experts, including the co-discoverers of HIV, Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo. It explores the evolution of the disease, the evolution of HIV treatment, and the economic, social, and public policy impacts of both HIV and the introduction of HAART.

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About the Author

Jose M. Zuniga is President/CEO of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care in Chicago, USA. Alan Whiteside is Director, Health and Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban in South Africa. Amin Ghaziani is Cotsen Postdoctoral
Fellow, Society of Fellows at Princeton University, USA. John Bartlett is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA.

Review

"...this book provides a fascinating and accessible account of the first decade of HAART and of 25 years of HIV infection that will be of interest to many."--Clinical Infectious Diseases

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199225850
• ISBN 13: 9780199225859
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 546
• Editor: Zuniga José M, Whiteside Alan, Ghaziani Amin, Bartlett John G