Aids category: 18535 books
Multicultural Human Services for AIDS Treatment and Prevention
Policy, Perspectives, and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This much-needed book presents an introduction and overview of multicultural AIDS issues in social work practice. In a culturally diverse nation, it is essential that professionals look at AIDS within a cultural context in order to find the most effective treatment and prevention strategies for everyone....
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...
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....
The Children of Africa Confront AIDS
From Vulnerability to Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, 45 percent of children under the age of five are HIV-positive, and the epidemic has shortened life expectancy...
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: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Get the latest on culturally sensitive health care practices
The United States-Mexico border region extends over 2,000 miles, and those residing there struggle to come to grips with several health and poverty challenges. Outreach and Care Approaches to HIV/AIDS Along the US-Mexico Border discusses...
The Next Generation of AIDS Patients
Service Needs and Vulnerabilities
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Go beyond traditional medical care to treat the whole person!
In the past ten years, the treatment and epidemiology of AIDS have changed, and HIV/AIDS services must also change. The Next Generation of AIDS Patients suggests new ways to find and care for persons living with AIDS, not just by...
Preventing AIDS
Community-Science Collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Learn how to create professional collaboration between HIV/AIDS researchers and community organizations for the benefit of all!
This book is designed to help frontline prevention organizations answer two questions that are of utmost importance. First, how effective are their services; and second,...
Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS
Mending Fractured Selves
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Meet the women behind the statistics!
Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected population of the United States. Based on interviews with HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to...
How AIDS Ends
An Anthology from San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
When the history of HIV/AIDS is written, what will the final chapter look like? How AIDS Ends poses this question to 15 visionaries. We asked them to write history before it happens. The result is this first-of-its-kind anthology from San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Each author has been deeply touched...
North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS
Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adolescents living with the virus. Moreover, the...
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...
Health Solutions
HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
"This book is a useful guide to the history of HIV/Aids, its mode of transmission, its symptoms, its prevention and treatment, its prevention and treatment. It is immensely educative and helps to dispel several misconceptions which exist about the causes and mode of transmission of HIV/Aids. The purpose...
by Victoria A. Harden; Anthony Fauci, MD
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. AIDS at 30 is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasizes the medical response to the...