Remaking HIV Prevention in the 21st Century : The Promise of Tasp, U=u and Pr...

by Bernays, Sarah (EDT); Bourne, Adam (EDT); Kippax, Susan (EDT); Ag

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Remaking HIV Prevention in the 21st Century : The Promise of Tasp, U=u and Prep, Paperback by Bernays, Sarah (EDT); Bourne, Adam (EDT); Kippax, Susan (EDT); Aggleton, Peter (EDT); Parker, Richard (EDT), ISBN 3030698211, ISBN-13 9783030698218, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This edited collection brings together the social dimensions of three key aspects of recent biomedical advance in HIV research: Treatment as Prevention (TasP), new technologies such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and the Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) movement. The growth of new forms of biomedical HIV prevention has created hope for the future, signalling the possibility of a world without AIDS. In this context, the volume discusses the profound social, political and ethical dilemmas raised by such advances, which are to do with readiness, access, equity and availability. It examines how HIV prevention has been, and is, re-framed in policy, practice and research, and asks: How best can new biomedical technologies be made available in a profoundly unequal world? What new understandings of responsibility and risk will emerge as HIV becomes a more manageable condition? What new forms of blame will emerge in a context where the technologies to prevent HIV exist, but are not always used? How best can we balance public health’s concern for adherence and compliance with the rights of individuals to decide on what is best for themselves and others? Few of these questions have thus far recei

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