Aids Hiv category: 276 books
Midlife and Older Adults and HIV
Implications for Social Service Research, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Get a detailed overview of the social services provided for HIV-infected midlife and older adults, and find out where social work practice with this growing population is headed!
As more potent medications are being developed to treat HIV, people who have contracted the virus are living longer...
Youths Living with HIV
Self-Evident Truths
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In this enlightening book, you’ll explore the life struggles and adaptations leading up to and following HIV infection in young Americans. The cases presented in Youths Living with HIV envisage a variety of experiences of youths living with HIV and AIDS, including individuals of different races,...
HIV/AIDS in Young Adult Novels
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Not long after becoming public health concerns in the 1980s, HIV and AIDS were featured in a number of works of fiction, though such titles were written primarily for adult readers. Mirroring the disease's indiscriminate nature, however, the subject would soon be incorporated into novels aimed at...
HIV and Social Work
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
As HIV/AIDS continue to plague societies around the world, more and more social workers encounter HIV-infected individuals and their families and friends who are searching for help and support. In HIV and Social Work: A Practitioner's Guide, experienced social workers share their practice wisdom,...
by Adele D. Jones (Editor), Jacqueline A. Padmore (Editor), Priya E. Maharaj (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
HIV-AIDS and Social Work Practice in the Caribbean demonstrates how social workers, working alongside heath care professionals can contribute to the multi-disciplinary intervention in the fight against HIV-AIDS in the Caribbean using the lived experiences of person affected by HIV-AIDS. Using Trinidad...
HIV & Aids
The Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
There are now more people living with HIV in the UK than ever
before. In 2015, an estimated 101,200 people in the UK were
living with HIV, 13% of whom were unaware of their infection.
More than 6,000 people were newly diagnosed with HIV in 2015.
This book can help people recognise signs and symptoms...
Stigma
An Ethnography of Mental Illness and HIV/AIDS in China
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Based on two and a half years of fieldwork in China, this book examines the cultural genesis and social mechanisms of stigma related to mental illness and HIV/AIDS in China. It also explores the bio-politics on stigma through detailed description of social exclusion experienced by people suffering...
AIDS, Communication, and Empowerment
Gay Male Identity and the Politics of Public Health Messages
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
AIDS, Communication, and Empowerment examines the cultural construction of gay men in light of discourse used in the media’s messages about HIV/AIDS--messages often represented as educational, scientific, and informational but which are, in fact, politically charged. The book offers a compelling...
A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals
A Daring Response to an Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Explore the in-hospital evolution of social work with HIV/AIDS patients!
A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals: A Daring Response to an Epidemic presents first-hand historical perspectives from frontline hospital social workers who cared for HIV/AIDS patients during the epidemic’s beginning...
by Michael W Ross
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In this important book, editor Michael Ross brings together the latest knowledge and research concerning the relationship between HIV and AIDS and sexual functioning. HIV/AIDS and Sexuality explores the experiences of being HIV-infected and the impact of infection on an individual's sexuality. It...
Ensnared by AIDS
Cultural Contexts of HIV and AIDS In Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
How people make sense of illness is, in part, culturally determined. Existing community beliefs and presuppositions are organized as cultural models, which “make meaning” of new situations such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic. These cultural constructions can also contribute to the spread of the epidemic....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
An authoritative guide to the epidemiology, incidence, testing and diagnosis and management of HIV and AIDS.
From an international expert editor and contributor team, this new sixth edition includes expanded coverage of HIV testing, assessment and routine follow up and new chapters outlining...
The AIDS Movie
Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Are people with HIV/AIDS treated fairly in films?
Here is a compelling book that provides you with a thorough examination of how HIV/AIDS is characterized and portrayed in film and how this portrayal affects American culture. The AIDS Movie: Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television uncovers...
Hotel Ritz - Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes
Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Explore ways to reduce the rate of HIV infection in street prostitutes--and the inescapable connection between the heroin trade, prostitution, and HIV!
This unique book draws on face-to-face interviews that the author conducted on the streets, with heroin-addicted street prostitutes in Southern...