Aids Hiv category: 276 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...
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...
AIDS Orphans Rising
What You Should Know and What You Can Do to Help Them Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
A Child-Headed Household is formed every 15 seconds...
Thousands of children around the world are orphaned daily when their parents die of AIDS. When siblings stay together to form a family, it is called a Child-Headed Household. They desperately want to live together, resisting attempts to separate...
And the Band Played On
Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was...
If Memory Serves
Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher...
by Jenny Trinitapoli, Alexander Weinreb
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.
Your Soul's Plan eChapters - Chapter 2: Physical Illness
Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Would you like to understand the deeper spiritual meaning and purpose of AIDS, cancer, and physical illness in general?
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Your Soul’s Plan eChapters: Physical Illness contains the Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1: Pre-birth Planning, and Chapter 2: Physical Illness from Robert Schwartz’s best-selling...
Preaching Prevention
Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to “abstain and be faithful” as a primary prevention strategy in Africa. This ethnography of the born-again Christians who led the new anti-AIDS push in Uganda provides insight...
Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal,...
The Slow Death of the Aids/Cancer Paradigm
And the Apocrypha of the Eukaryotic Cell
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
AIDS and cancer are neither random nor infectious diseases. Both are characterized by a proton deficit and a reversal of the chimeric/energetic cooperative trend of the eukaryotic nucleus with the mitochondrial endosymbiont. This pattern is not random. It is consistent with the evolutionary heritage...
by Sandra Cabot MD
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Dr Sandra Cabot has written this book as a guide for people with chronic viral Hepatitis or AIDS. It offers practical and effective evidence based holistic medicine. Dont believe that you cannot be helped, as holistic medicine has the power to change your long term health outcomes and give you many extra...
Somebody to Love
The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercury's closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Somebody to Love is an authoritative biography of the great man. Here are...
by Cricket Barrazotto
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
"Life Don't Have To End." is a compilation of stories, images, and wisdom from HIV positive men and women. Over a two-year period, more than 60 courageous individuals from the JACQUES Initiative of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine tell their story. Raw, edgy, now, heart wrenching, true and undeniable are just a few descriptors.
Love Undetectable
Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
"I intend to be among the first generation that survives this disease." That was former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan's first public statement about his HIV diagnosis. Speaking to heterosexual and homosexual audiences alike, this book is about the first steps in that journey of survival.
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