Aids Hiv category: 276 books
AIDS
Don't Die of Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Eighteen million people around the world live with HIV but do not know they are infected. Endangering both themselves and countless others, they represent a public health challenge that affects not only Africa but every part of the world, including Europe and the United States. We stand at a tipping...
Cured
How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
“Nathalia Holt presents a thorough account of the research that provides scientists with hope that a cure will one day be achievable... and her empathy shines through in her prose. This is as important a social history as it is a medical document.”—The Daily Beast
Two patients—each...
Lesbian Women and Sexual Health
The Social Construction of Risk and Susceptibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Interviewer: Where did you find out how to have safe lesbian sex?
Val: I found out in jail.
Why do so many lesbian women engage in sexual behavior that puts their health, even their lives, at risk? Many know they’re at risk, yet somehow feel safe enough to behave as if there is no reason...
Speaking Truth to Power
The Story of the AIDS Law Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The AIDS Law Project (ALP) is a small legal NGO in Johannesburg that, along with its allies in the Treatment Action Campaign, fought for more than a decade for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS. Today South Africa has laws that protect the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and the largest...
by Prof. Rajinder M. Kalra
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This book, entitled HIV/AIDS among Industrial Workers & Truck Drivers, is a world class humanitarian effort. Kalra & Kalra have condensed an immense amount of literature in to a single concise handbook. Statistics, editorials, government data and interviews outlined in this book provide a...
Model Programs for Adolescent Sexual Health
Evidence-Based HIV, STI, and Pregnancy Prevention Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2008
Model Programs for Adolescent Sexual Health is a directory of the most promising and proven effective sexual education and prevention programs in the United States. The programs included in this volume were selected for their demonstrated positive impact on STI, pregnancy, and HIV/AIDS-related risk...
The Chinese Connection
South of the Clouds
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
After being told, “You’re stupid and incapable of achieving anything,” by her ex-husband, Peggy decided she would do something different.
“But what?” she asked herself and set off for the public library where she searched all the agencies and charities who were looking for volunteers....
Someone Was Here
Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Three powerful profiles of men and women whose lives were changed forever by the AIDS epidemic
“Some of my reasons for wanting to write about AIDS were altruistic, others selfish. AIDS was decimating the community around me; there was a need to bear witness. AIDS had turned me and others...
Dry Bones Breathe
Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures breaks new ground in offering an original and insightful interpretation of gay men’s shifting experience of the AIDS epidemic. From Dry Bones Breathe, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of current community debates focused on...
The Secret Epidemic
The Story of AIDS and Black America
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Half the people in the United States who are diagnosed with HIV are now African American. Through the eyes of those on the front lines of the crisis, journalist Jacob Levenson tells a story of race and public health that spans fifty years and reveals how AIDS has become one of the leading killers...
AIDS and Power
Why There Is No Political Crisis Yet
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
One in six adults in sub-Saharan Africa will die in their prime of AIDS. It is a stunning cataclysm, plunging life expectancy to pre-modern levels and orphaning millions of children. Yet political trauma does not grip Africa. People living with AIDS are not rioting in the streets or overthrowing governments....
Piecing the Puzzle
The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg...
by William H. Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic. The introduction of transfusion held great promise for improving health, but...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Examines the circumstances, experiences and needs of HIV-positive people in Britain and Ireland, and particularly focuses on female drug-users and ex drug-users.