Balancing the Socio-political and Medico-ethical Dimensions of HIV

Amos Laar, PhD obtained his BSc (in Nutrition and Biochemistry), MPH, PhD (in Public Health) from the University of Ghana, and MA (in Bioethics) from the University of Minnesota, USA. He is a Bioethicist, and a Tenure-Track Academic at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana - Accra, Ghana. His earlier work makes significant contribution to public health scholarship on women's reproductive health, particularly the socio-cultural, socio-ethical, and medico-ethical dimensions of HIV. Currently his research and professional practice straddle three distinct yet related areas of public health: Bioethics; Public Health Nutrition; and Social Public Health. Through these, his scholarship contributes to a deeper understanding of how physical environments, social environments, and structural forces affect realization of health. He has authored over 90 scholarly works on the above topics. He is a mentor - having supervised over 70 graduate and undergraduate theses from universities in Africa (University of Ghana, University of South Africa), Asia (Nagasaki University of Japan), Europe (University of Sheffield, UK), and North America (University of South Carolina, USA).

CHAPTER 1: The practice of public health.- CHAPTER 2: Public health approaches to HIV and AIDS.- CHAPTER 3: HIV interventions: which should count? which should not? And why not?.- CHAPTER 4: Access to life-saving public health goods by persons infected or affected by HIV.- CHAPTER 5: "They are criminals": AIDS, the law, harm reduction, and the socially excluded.- CHAPTER 6: Developing socially and ethically responsive National AIDS policies.- CHAPTER 7: Making National HIV/AIDS response responsive to social public health: Lessons from Ghana.