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The Center is proud to release this new book, edited by Center director Chris Beyrer and Hank Pizer of Health Strategies Inc., and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Aimed at a professional audience, the book is the first methods-oriented text to bring together population-based assessment tools and human rights investigations.
Leonard Rubenstein, director of Physicians for Human Rights and author of the book’s foreward, writes, “It deepens our understanding of the ‘doing’ of public health and human rights and demonstrates in concrete ways how that work can help us move toward a more just world.”
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Edited by David Celentano and Chris Beyrer, the book brings a global perspective to the HIV pandemic by tracking epidemiological trends, correcting misperceptions, and examining the varied roles of local, government and international response in countries such as Brazil, Nigeria, the Russian Federation, Cambodia and India.
It offers the latest data on infection rates, details of risk reduction and care programs, analysis of evolving social attitudes regarding HIV and prospects for new forms of treatment.
Just released in September 2008 by Springer Verlag Read the Lancet review Touted as "a powerful testimony of the capacity to unite care with practical action," Dr. Beyrer's book traces the course of the HIV epidemic through seven Southeast Asian countries, systematically chronicling the cultural and political influences of this devasting disease. The book covers the broad spectrum of issues surrounding the HIV epidemic and takes a close look at country-specific, high-risk groups, prevention and treatment programs, policies, and public health response. 
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