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AIDS Vaccine Handbook: Global Perspectives (2nd edition)
Edited by Patricia Kahn

Handbook This completely revamped and international edition provides an overview of the key scientific, policy, social, ethical and economic challenges, and of the diverse experience gained around the world over the past two decades. The easy-to-read, lively essays are written by people involved in this work as community educators and advocates, trial staff and volunteers, scientists and researchers, and policy-makers and journalists. AVAC hopes this new handbook serves well as a resource and reference guide - and this is motivates people to take action!


Click here to read a review of the handbook published in the South African Medical Research Council's AIDS Bulletin - December 2005

To obtain printed copies of the AIDS Vaccine Handbook, please click here or call the National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) at 1 800 458-5231 and ask for inventory item E198.

For orders outside the US, send us an email at handbook@avac.org.

To view the original edition published in 1999, click here.

To obtain a printed copy send an email to handbook@avac.org.


AIDS Vaccine Handbook: Global Perspectives (electronic version)

Click on the bold section titles to view entire sections of the handbook (large files), or click on titles to view each section (smaller files).

Download the Entire Handbook (11.6 MB)

Introduction & Forward
Contents
An Epidemic That Rages On
Mitchell Warren

Section 1. Overview
Why We Need Vaccine Activism, Still
Bill Snow

Where Are We In the Search for an AIDS Vaccine?
Patricia Kahn

HIV in Pictures
Patricia Kahn and Roberto Fernandez-Larsson

Section 2. AIDS Vaccine Science
Vaccine Basics
Bill Snow

The Immune System in Pictures
Text by Patricia Kahn / Illustrations by Lew Long

Vaccine Development: From Concept to Licensed Product
Huntly Collins

AIDS Vaccine Approaches in Development
Patricia Kahn

Vaccines that Trigger Cellular Immunity: What Can We Hope For?
Richard Jefferys

Partially Effective Vaccines
Emily Bass

Do Clades Matter for AIDS Vaccines?
Patricia Kahn

Testing AIDS Vaccines in People
Emily Bass and Patricia Kahn Testing for Immune Responses to HIV:
The Science in Pictures

Patricia Kahn and Michael Hoelscher

Section 3. Clinical Trials
Being a Trial Volunteer: What Happens?
Scott Carroll and Patricia Kahn

Is It Safe?
Pat Fast

Research Ethics: Recipe for Success
Bill Snow

Informed Consent in HIV Vaccine Trials
Graham Lindegger / South Africa

Community Advisory Boards
Steve Wakefield

Community Education: Working Together
Mônica Barbosa de Souza / Brazil

Ensuring Community Participation and Readiness:
A Conversation with Janet Fröhlich

Janet Fröhlich with Patricia Kahn / South Africa

Vaccine Trials: Leaving Communities Better Off
Adapted from the AVAC REPORT 20041

HIV Vaccine Trials in Uganda: Personal Experience as an Investigator
Pontiano Kaleebu / Uganda

Facing Failure on the Way Towards Success:
Lessons Learned from the VaxGen Trial

Richard Jefferys

Testing Vaccines in Injecting Drug Users:
VaxGen's Efficacy Trial in Thailand

Introduction by Patricia Kahn

Section 4. Communities and Cohorts
Women, AIDS and the Search for a Vaccine
Sushma Kapoor / India

Challenges Recruiting Women Into Trials
Sabina Wakasiaka / Kenya

AIDS Research with Sex Workers: Lessons Learned
Emily Bass

Thai Drug Users Network, AIDS and Human Rights:
A Conversation with Karyn Kaplan

Karyn Kaplan with Patrica Kahn / Thailand

Adolescents and AIDS Vaccine Research in the United States
Audrey Smith Rogers / USA

Adolescents in HIV Vaccine Trials: Perspective from Botswana
Tonya L. Villafana, Nthabiseng Phaladze, Christine Stegling,
Rupert HambIra, Peninah Thumbi, Joseph Makhema / Botswana

Testing STD Vaccines in Young People: How it's Done
Huntly Collins

A Queer Eye on AIDS Vaccine Development
Edd Lee

AIDS Prevention and African Militaries:
A Conversation with Colonel Deborah Birx

Colonel Deborah Birx with Patricia Kahn

Section 5. Global Advocacy
Community Matters: (Re)-defining Our Advocacy
Shaun Mellors / South Africa

From Trial Volunteer to Vaccine Advocate
Paul Wetaka / Uganda

Speed and Equity: Why Political Leadership is Important
Chris Collins

Ensuring Rapid Global Access to AIDS Vaccines
David Gold

Just 2 Drops: Polio Eradication in Pictures
Text by Patricia Kahn / Photos from the World Health Organization Archives

Section 6. Voices
Working with Communities: 1991
Bill Snow

Coming of Age Amid Grief, Death and AIDS
Garance Franke-Ruta

Terms of Engagement: How Communities Helped Shape Brazil's AIDS Vaccine Agenda
Alex Menezes / Brazil

AIDS, South Africa, Stigma, Vaccines: A Conversation with Justice Edwin Cameron
Justice Edwin Cameron with Patricia Kahn / South Africa

Going First: A Conversation With Anthony Morris
Anthony Morris with Patricia Kahn / USA

Going First: A Conversation With Mdu Nkosi
Mdu Nkosi with Liz Clarke / South Africa

Section 7. Appendix
The Authors

Trial Sites Around the World

Ongoing Clinical Trials

Organizations Involved With AIDS Vaccines / About AVAC

Glossary

Index


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