Aids category: 18535 books
Friend Grief and AIDS:
Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
It's been likened to a plague, but AIDS never had a chance to be just a virus. The second in a series on grieving the death of a friend, Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends revisits a time when people with AIDS were also targets of bigotry and discrimination. In stories about...
HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Understanding the implications of culture & context
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Popular understanding of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is riddled with contradiction and speculation. This is revealed in HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, which explores the various contexts in which debate about HIV/AIDS takes place and examines how the pandemic is perceived by scholars,...
AIDS Doctors
Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2002
Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the...
by Robert Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This is the first autobiography to be published by The Haworth Press.
This is the first autobiography to be published by Harrington Park Press.
The place is New York City. The time is the decade before the plague of AIDS. Thousands of gay men were living a free-wheeling lifestyle of...
Love in the Time of AIDS
Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal settlement and collecting love letters, cell phone text...
The Geometry of Care
Linking Resources, Research, and Community to Reduce Degrees of Separation Between HIV Treatment and
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Connect multiple resources to form effective strategies to deal with AIDS
An effective strategy to deal with the AIDS epidemic is to have a wide range of scientists, clinicians, front-line workers, and clients distribute theory, care, and resource knowledge geometrically through all levels....
by Elizabeth Pisani
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
A flame-throwing epidemiologist talks about sex, drugs, and the mistakes (dismal), ideologies (vicious), and hopes (realistic) of international AIDS prevention.
When people ask Elizabeth Pisani what she does for a living, she says, "sex and drugs." As an epidemiologist researching...
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...
Lethal Decisions
The Unnecessary Deaths of Women and Children from HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This first-person account by one of the pioneers of HIV/AIDS research chronicles the interaction among the pediatric HIV/AIDS community, regulatory bodies, governments, and activists over more than three decades. After the discovery of AIDS in a handful of infants in 1981, the next fifteen years showed...
Crying for Our Elders
African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in Crying for Our Elders, anthropologist Kristen E. Cheney...
Eating Positive
A Nutrition Guide and Recipe Book for People with HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Proper nutrition is essential to individuals with HIV/AIDS. Yet, it is often difficult to maintain an adequate diet due to a variety of conditions associated with the disease and/or medications used to alleviate symptoms. Eating Positive: A Nutrition Guide and Recipe Book for People with HIV/AIDS...
by David Quammen
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
In this "frightening and fascinating masterpiece" (Walter Isaacson), David Quammen explores the true origins of HIV/AIDS.
The real story of AIDS—how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people—is very different...
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...
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,...