Aids Hiv category: 276 books
HIV in China
Understanding the Social Aspects of the Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The result of collaboration between the University of New South Wales and the Tsinghua University in Beijing, this unique chronicle maps some of the most important social, political, and cultural characteristics of the HIV epidemic in China. Demonstrating that the epidemic was propelled by three main...
Intersections: Gender, HIV, and Infrastructure Operations
Lessons from Selected ADB–Financed Transport Projects
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to mainstream gender equality approaches in all sectors of its operations. This publication assesses the nexus between gender inequalities, HIV spread, and infrastructure development. A desk review and comparative analysis of existing infrastructure sector...
HIV Testing Handbook
A Guide To Your Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This handbook covers some of the topics that you need to know to understand your rights in regards to HIV testing in a new environment where the push is for “routine testing”. It covers topics like informed consent, “non-nominal” (no name) testing, how to safeguard your medical privacy and...
Dna Vaccines
Design of a Gene to Eradicate Hiv
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The world is under constant threat of a virus evolving into a global plague. To this point, there is no direct defense against a widespread viral infection. DNA Vaccines: Design of a Gene to Eradicate HIV offers an innovative and new strategy to combat deadly viral infections. Presented is the discovery...
by Ian Fineman
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
For the first time ever, bestselling author Ian Fineman takes readers on an unprecedented journey behind the glare of the spotlight and media headlines to reveal the true Charlie Sheen story as it’s never been told.From the unnerving details of Sheen's secret HIV diagnosis, to the potential...
How to Survive a Plague
The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
A definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Almost universally ignored, these men and women learned to become their own researchers, lobbyists,...
by Michael H. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In this insightful and inspirational memoir, Michael Ward returns to the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when so little was known and so few who were diagnosed survived. He chronicles in candid detail his partner Mark's decline and eventual death. By looking back on these devastating events, the...
Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa
Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
This book examines young African's sexual relationships in the context of village life. It is based on a large in-depth qualitative study in Tanzania, in a region typical of rural sub-Saharan Africa. It describes how dominant community values both discouraged and encouraged adolescent sexual activity....
Without Condoms
Unprotected Sex, Gay Men and Barebacking
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
After years of activism, risk awareness, and AIDS prevention, increasing numbers of gay men are not using condoms, and new infections of HIV are on the rise. Using case studies and exhaustive survey research, this timely, groundbreaking book allows men who have unprotected sex, a practice now known...
Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement
Committed to Home
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
In Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home, Sheila R. Morris has collected essays by South Carolinians who explore their gay identities and activism from the emergence of the HIV-AIDS pandemic to the realization of marriage equality in the state thirty years later. Each of the...
by Joan K Parry
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill, second edition, takes a compassionate look at ways that social workers can help dying people and their families. The social workers who work most effectively with terminally ill patients and their families are the ones who best understand the...
I Have Something to Tell You
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
For ten years, Regan Hofmann lived a double life. To the world, she was a woman from Princeton who went to prep school, summered in the Hamptons and rode Thoroughbred horses. She had a great job, a loving family and friends and looks that made men turn their heads. From the outside, she seemed to...
by Kuan-Teh Jeang, J. Thomas August, Ferid Murad
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
This volume covers the latest advances in the mechanisms of pathogenesis of the HIV-1 virus on target cells. Its companion volume, Advances in Pharmacology 56, shows how new developments in understanding the virus translate to the clinical setting.
For Life, With Love
Training Tool for HIV Prevention and Safe Migration in Road Construction Settings and Affected Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) adapted IOM's existing migrant-friendly tool called For Life, With Love---a video and life skills package on HIV prevention and safe mobility for migrant and mobile populations in the Greater Mekong Subregion---to...