Aids Hiv category: 276 books
Scrambling for Africa
AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted by some of the most prestigious research universities...
Mistreated
The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
As global health institutions and aid donors expanded HIV treatment throughout Africa, they rapidly "scaled up" programs, projects, and organizations meant to address HIV and AIDS. Yet these efforts did not simply have biological effects: in addition to extending lives and preventing further...
by Peter Piot
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only catastrophic to the health of millions worldwide...
Voices in the Band
A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
"I am an AIDS doctor. When I began that work in 1992, we knew what caused AIDS, how it spread, and how to avoid getting it, but we didn't know how to treat it or how to prevent our patients' seemingly inevitable progression toward death. The stigma that surrounded AIDS patients from the very beginning...
Live Long and Prosper
How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This pioneering new study of the Black megachurch phenomenon brings nuance and depth to the question, Are Black megachurches more focused on prosperity than on people?
Black megachurches and their pastors are often accused of failing to use their considerable resources to help the poor; focusing...
Positive
Living with HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Positive is an account of a special life fearlessly told, as well as a chronicle of an era. Fifteen years ago, HIV and AIDS meant one thing - death. In 1984 David Menadue was one of the first people to be diagnosed with HIV in Australia. He was just 30 years old and thought it unlikely he would make...
by Shawn C. Smallman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Of the more than 40 million people around the world currently living with HIV/AIDS, two million live in Latin America and the Caribbean. In an engaging chronicle illuminated by his travels in the region, Shawn Smallman shows how the varying histories and cultures of the nations of Latin America have...
Holding On
African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In Holding On anthropologist Alyson O’Daniel analyzes the abstract debates about health policy for the sickest and most vulnerable Americans as well as the services designated to help them by taking readers into the daily lives of poor African American women living with HIV at the advent of the...
by Liz Rich
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
AIDS has taken too many good people from their loved ones. In support of AIDS research and in honor of a very special friend, this is the short story of a young man's final journey after losing his fight for life.
Though AIDS is not the biggest topic in the news and even though many advancements...
HIV/AIDS and the South African State
Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Respond
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
For three decades post-apartheid, the HIV/AIDS epidemic from first acknowledgement to its management as a chronic disease, demanded unparalleled attention. This was nowhere more evident than in South Africa. This book explores how the state responded to its responsibilities to defend and protect (human)...
Natural Hosts of SIV
Implication in AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Natural Hosts of SIV: Implications in AIDS thoroughly reviews the possible mechanisms by which African nonhuman primate natural hosts of lentiviruses remain essentially disease-free while other hosts exhibit disease and death. The book ultimately indicates directions for further research and potential...
Ashamed to Die
Silence, Denial, and the AIDS Epidemic in the South
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
By focusing on a small town in South Carolina, this study of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the South reveals the hard truths of an ongoing and complex issue. Skerritt contends that the United States has failed to adequately address the threat of HIV and AIDS in communities of color and that taboos about...
by Publish Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
This little guide is for and about taking a proactive stance in not getting HIV /AIDS with the advanced treatment option known as PrEP, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. It also includes some information about emergency treatment for one time exposure to HIV called PEP.Inside the book you will find the following:What...
Landscapes of Activism
Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. At first, the group has everything it needs, a thriving membership, and support from major donors. Soon,...