Aids category: 18535 books
One Life at a Time
An American Doctor's Memoir of AIDS in Botswana
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
When Dr. Daniel Baxter arrived in Botswana in 2002, he was confident of the purity of his mission to help people with AIDS, armed with what he thought were immutable truths about life—and himself—that had been forged on his AIDS ward in New York City ten years earlier. But Baxter’s good intentions...
The AIDS Pandemic
Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population--infected and uninfected--by influencing...
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...
by Stellah Mupanduki
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Be Healed From HIV/AIDSBe healed from HIV/AIDS is a brilliant divine healing book from God Almighty, that is Living and Active and has healing strength in the anointed use of the power in the blood of Jesus Christ as it takes away the grave and all brokenness and draws people nearer and nearer to...
by Kate Scannell
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Doctor Kate Scannell abandoned her academic career in 1985 expecting to enter an "ordinary" medical practice in Northern California. Instead, the thirty-two-year-old physician found herself assigned to a county hospital AIDS ward where much of the medicine she has studied over many difficult...
Achieving an AIDS Transition
Preventing Infections to Sustain Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Five million people in poor countries are receiving AIDS treatment, but international AIDS policy is still in crisis. Donors are giving less than they had been, even though infections continue unabated, and the number of people dependent on treatment rises each year.
This book proposes a feasible...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This volume of the Medical Basic Guides is about AIDS "What You Always Wanted To Know About..." are , straight-to-the-point, easily understandable and comprehensive medical ebooks and guides for everybody. Whether you are just interested in the topic of the book or you are directly affected...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
As news headlines report staggering numbers of people infected with HIV or AIDS across the globe and as stereotypes of typical AIDS patients become less and less specific to particular sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds, the AIDS pandemic shows little sign of relenting. AIDS crosses geopolitical...
Love Is the Cure
On Life, Loss, and the End of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
A deeply personal account of Elton John's life during the era of AIDS and an inspiring call to action.
In the 1980s, Elton John saw friend after friend, loved one after loved one, perish needlessly from AIDS. He befriended Ryan White, a young Indiana boy ostracized because of his HIV infection....
AIDS as an International Political Issue
A Selection from AIDS Between Science and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), reports on the influence of civil society in international relations and traditional partisan divides. AIDS thrust health into national and international politics where, he argues, it rightly belongs....
by Richard W Price, John J Sidtis
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
In this exciting symposium, the editor brings to print important new information on AIDS and how HIV affects the brain. Each chapter focuses on one or more of the cell types that reside in or traffic through the central nervous system (CNS). Each of these cells is important to considerations of the...
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,...
Taking Turns
Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taking Turns pulls back the curtain on life in the ward.
A shining example of excellence...