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Leprosy and Stigma in the South Pacific: A Region-by-Region History with First Person Accounts
 

Leprosy and Stigma in the South Pacific: A Region-by-Region History with First Person Accounts (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By McMenamin, Dorothy

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The long-lasting effects of leprosy are still evident in various parts of the world. This book details the personal experiences of people in Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu, the majority of whom contracted leprosy as children. It recounts how the victims were subjec ...

ISBN 9780786463237
Published 15 September 2011
Interest Age All ages
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Global Health Challenge: Essays on Aids

Global Health Challenge: Essays on Aids (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

Edited by Morrison, Gordon

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This text examines blood vaccine research; governmental strategies to contain the epidemic; media influence over the public; ways in which infections use HIV as a gateway to create sub-epidemics in developing countries; and how the epidemic can undermine a society economically an ...

ISBN 9780850926514
Published 1 January 2001 by Commonwealth Secretariat
Interest Age All ages
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Gender Mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS: Taking a Multisectoral Approach

Gender Mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS: Taking a Multisectoral Approach (Paperback)

By Secretariat, Commonwealth

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This manual offers a number of case studies from developing and developed countries, which illustrate how programmes that promote HIV prevention by addressing gender and the social and economic factors that increase people's risk of infection are more likely to succeed in changin ...

ISBN 9780850926552
Published 1 January 2002 by Commonwealth Secretariat
Interest Age All ages
Series New Gender Mainstreaming Series on Development Issues
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Coping with HIV/AIDS in Education: Case Studies of Kenya and Tanzania

Coping with HIV/AIDS in Education: Case Studies of Kenya and Tanzania (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Juma, Magdallen N.

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The case study districts selected in these two countries are among the areas with the highest HIV/AIDS infections. This book demonstrates how HIV/AIDS is affecting pupils, teachers, parents, the curriculum and resources, and is intended for ministries of education and other decis ...

ISBN 9780850926675
Published 1 January 2001 by Commonwealth Secretariat
Interest Age All ages
Series Commonwealth Case Studies in Education Series
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The Search for a Cause: An Anthropological Perspective on a Neurological Disease in Guam, Western Pacific

The Search for a Cause: An Anthropological Perspective on a Neurological Disease in Guam, Western Pacific (Hardback)

By Keck, Verena,

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In this anthropological study of a neurodegenerative disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Parkinsonism-Dementia Complex (ALS/PDC) in Guam, Western Pacific, Verena Keck intertwines three separate perspectives of history, medicine, and anthropology. The book is an important co ...

ISBN 9781935198017
Published 1 July 2012
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Ma'i Lepera: A History of Leprosy in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii
 

Ma'i Lepera: A History of Leprosy in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Inglis, Kerri A.

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This book attempts to recover Hawaiian voices at a significant moment in Hawaiis history. It takes an unprecedented look at the Hansens disease outbreak (18651900) almost exclusively from the perspective of patients, ninety percent of who was Kanaka

ISBN 9780824836351
Published 15 February 2013 by University of Hawai'i Press
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Sin, Sex and Stigma: A Pacific Response to HIV and AIDS
 

Sin, Sex and Stigma: A Pacific Response to HIV and AIDS (Hardback)

By Hammar, Lawrence James; Contributions by Boyd, Mark; Hewat, Sarah; Murray, Alison

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Hammar looks at what happens to national HIV programs when science and religion collide and when both ignore the setting of most infections in or on the way to marriage, specifically in Papua, New Guinea.

ISBN 9780955640049
Published 30 May 2010 by Sean Kingston Publishing
Interest Age All ages
Series Anthropology Matters
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Lepers in the Mariana Islands: During the Spanish Administration, 1668-1898 and Addenda (1899-1949)
  

Lepers in the Mariana Islands: During the Spanish Administration, 1668-1898 and Addenda (1899-1949) (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Driver, Marjorie G.

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A compilation of references to la lepra (leprosy) in the Mariana Islands during the Spanish Administration (1668-1898). It features the references found primarily in documents housed in the Spanish Documents Collection of the Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Cente ...

ISBN 9780980033113
Published 1 August 2009 by University of Guam, Micronesia
Interest Age Young Adults
Series MARC Educational Series
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