Aids Hiv category: 276 books

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Sexual Cultures in East Asia

The Social Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Time of AIDS

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary perspective, documented with sociological and anthropological data, to historical studies and looks at commercial sex work, kinship...
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Shattered Dreams

An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic

by Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Ronald Bayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007

Shattered Dreams? is an oral history of how physicians and nurses in South Africa struggled to ride the tiger of the world's most catastrophic AIDS epidemic. Based on interviews-not only from the great urban centers of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban-but from provincial centers and rural villages,...
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by Rodolfo Oscar Nappe
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 17, 2009

"La ENFERMEDAD que CURA". (HIV) En consideracin a las personas que de una u otra forma son atacadas o afectadas por las enfermedades. Las que llevan en el corazn el sufrimiento y la falta de aceptacin en el mundo en que vivimos. Las que se sienten oprimidas y deprimidas por un fallo corporal,...
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The Collective Works of Yves

Haiti's Number One Patriot

by Dr. Yves Jerome
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003

The first in a fascinating series. This two(2) book collection blends and depicts Haitis quest for freedom from its inception to the present day. A looking glass, if you will, into the passions that fueled this modern day life scientist to prism and harness the pains and costs of a revolution. Book...
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by Myriam Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013

A compelling and heart-wrenching drama of one mother’s quest to save her son, and the unexpected and surprising lengths a person can be driven to in the name of love. Story of a Canadian family residing in Bolivia at the time; set in Bolivian society in 1985, Forgiven centres on the story of Myriam...
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Talk Softly

A Memoir

by Cynthia O'Neal
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

Actress and model Cynthia O'Neal was living her dream life—married to the famous stage and screen actor Patrick O’Neal, the mother of two young sons, resident of the Dakota downstairs from John Lennon, owner of the successful Ginger Man restaurant, and frequent guest at dinner parties with Leonard...
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Our Kind of People

A Continent's Challenge, A Country's Hope

by Uzodinma Iweala
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

In 2005, Uzodinma Iweala stunned readers and critics alike with Beasts of No Nation, his debut novel about child soldiers in West Africa. Now his return to his native continent has produced Our Kind of People, a nonfiction account of the AIDS crisis that is every bit as startling and original. Iweala...
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There is No Me Without You

One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children

by Melissa Fay Greene
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008

Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her country's children. After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some...
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Man No Be God

Bushdoctor in Cameroon

by Dieter Lemke
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2001

man no be God is a story of a willing and driven Canadian doctor who spent his life immersed in the wonderful, complex and interesting lives of the people of western Cameroon. The individuals he went to learn from, to serve, to encourage, to support, and to befriend together provide a fascinating...
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"Why Do I Feel This Way?"

What Your Feelings Are Trying To Tell You

by Dina L Wilcox
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

In "Why Do I Feel This Way?" What Your Feelings Are Trying To Tell You, Dina Wilcox uses her own stories of learning to live with her feelings and emotions after her husband died of AIDS to share with other non-scientists the science of feelings, emotions and memories. In straightforward, plain language,...
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Social Work With Groups

Expanding Horizons

by Stanley Wenocur
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

Social Work With Groups describes continuity and change in group work. It revisits the theoretical ideas of group work and group work topics of the past decade, focusing on the continuity of group work theory and practice. At the same time it emphasizes the need for change to more effectively work...
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Smiling in the Storm

20 Moving Stories of AIDS Patients who Defied the Disease

by James E. Mutumba
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013

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God's Country

A Case Against Theocracy

by Sandy Rapp
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014

Explore the influence of religion on the privacy rights of U. S. citizens in this controversial new book! Here is a compelling and controversial new book that explores the enormous political influence that some religious groups currently wield. God’s Country focuses particularly on the issue...
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Decade of the Plague

The Sociopsychological Ramifications of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

by Margaret R Rodway, Marianne Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

Social workers, counselors, and health care professionals will be challenged by this thorough presentation of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). The contributing authors contend that in the immediate future, education, not medicine will be the single most important weapon in stemming the spread...
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