Aids Hiv category: 276 books
You Only Live Twice
Sex, Death and Transition
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive.
The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every answer, jumping across borders until they finally dissolve. Man and woman. Queer and straight.
What...
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...
Hay una respuesta (There Is an Answer)
Cómo prevenir y entender el VHI y el SIDA (How to Prevent and Understand HIV/AIDS)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 25, 2009
El VIH y el SIDA son temas que asustan. No sólo pueden destruir un cuerpo, sino que también pueden destruir una familia, las amistades y hasta una comunidad. A nadie le gusta hablar de eso, pero ignorar el problema no hará que éste desaparezca. La única manera en que podremos superar esta enfermedad...
Regulating Romance
Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda’s Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research, two hundred fifty interviews, and over three hundred youth love letters, author Shanti Parikh uses lively vignettes to provide a rare window into young people's heterosexual desires and practices in Uganda. In chapters entitled "Unbreak my heart,"...
The Land Is Dying
Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life....
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...
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Vaccines, Prevention, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
The last decade has seen a huge amount of change in the area of sexually transmitted infection control and prevention, including the development of high-profile vaccines for preventing the spread of cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV), novel control methods for HIV and AIDS, and even...
I Am A King In Christ
Healed From Terminal Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
I Am A King In Christ: Healed From Terminal Illness
A completely powerful and liberating, anointed with permanent healing, cleansing and protecting book for a child`s whole life to adulthood. Its unusual momentum is built upon peace and love and the healing of Terminal illness, Rare and Incurable...
Sida
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Observé pour la première fois aux États-Unis en 1981, le sida, syndrome d'immunodéficience humaine acquise (autrement dit S.I.D.A., ou A.I.D.S. en anglais), sévit encore de façon préoccupante dans le monde entier, où il aurait causé la mort de 25 millions de personnes depuis l'apparition de la ...
Dying to be Men
Youth, Masculinity and Social Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005
One of the first comparative reflections of its kind, this book examines the challenges that young men face when trying to grow up in societies where violence is the norm. Barker, who has worked directly with low-income youth and witnessed first hand the violence he describes, provides a compelling...
by Stellah Mupanduki
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Little One Be Healed In The Blood: Healed in The Body
Is a powerfully anointed healing and cleansing book for terminal illness, rare and diseases termed as “incurable”. This book brings complete healing to the little ones, It touches with great power flesh and blood and cleanses with a...
by Anab Whitehouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
This book explores a variety of topics in science, ranging from: Evolution and neurobiology, to: Cancer research, SSRIs, the HIV-AIDS issue, as well as various facets of methodology. Whatever your present thoughts might be concerning the foregoing topics, after reading ‘Explorations in Medicine,...
Sex, Drugs and Young People
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Sexual practices and drug use among the young are examined in this book, calling into question mainstream assumptions about ‘adolescence’.
Bringing together a range of cross-cultural and cross-national contributions, the book reveals both similarities and important differences that mark sexuality...
by Denny Highben
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
“On the Brink: The Coming of AIDS” -- There is a spiritual reality to mankind that is eternal, and spiritual reasons for all of man’s successes and failures, joys and sorrows. So it is with AIDS, the monstrous disease identified as “The Leveler” by the beacon of enlightenment which has come...