There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children by Melissa Fay Greene

Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay G more...0 points

Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her country's children. After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some of the thousands of children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans. There Is No Me Without You is the story of how Haregewoin transformed her home into an orphanage and day-care center and b...0 points

Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic by Jonny Steinberg

At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among more...0 points

At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his poverty-stricken village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, a son of old South West African stock, wants to show the world that if you provide decent treatment, people will come and get it, no matter their circumstances.

Sizwe and Hermann live at the epicenter of the greatest plague of our times, the African AIDS epidemic. In South Africa alone, nearly 6 million people in a population of 46 millio...

28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen

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"This is a formidable book of record%u2026from the tiny virus, via twenty-eight individual human stories, to an entire continent. The stories will tear you apart before putting you back together, fully armed and ready to go to war with a virus more dangerous than any WMD."-Bono"Magnificent, inspiring, informative. Nolen opens the essential door to the brave, suffering, human reality of the African AIDS crisis."-John le CarréFor the past six years, Stephanie Nolen ha...0 points

The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS by Helen Epstein

In 1993, Helen Epstein, a scientist working with a more...0 points

In 1993, Helen Epstein, a scientist working with a biotechnology company searching for an AIDS vaccine, moved to Uganda, where she witnessed firsthand the suffering caused by the epidemic. Now, in her unsparing and illuminating account of this global disease, she describes how international health experts, governments, and ordinary Africans have struggled to understand the rapid and devastating spread of the disease in Africa, and traces the changes wrought by new medical developments and emergi...0 points

Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette

This "tender and lyrical" memoir (New Yo more...0 points

This "tender and lyrical" memoir (New York Times Book Review) remains one of the most compelling documents of the AIDS era-"searing, shattering, ultimately hope inspiring account of a great love story" (San Francisco Examiner). A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and the winner of the PEN Center West literary award.
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Witness To AIDS (Autobiography) by Edwin Cameron

When Edwin Cameron announced to a stunned local an more...0 points

When Edwin Cameron announced to a stunned local and international media that he - one of South Africa's most prominent citizens - was himself living with the virus cutting swathes through the population of the continent, the impact was immediate. In Witness to AIDS, Edwin Cameron's compelling memoir, he grapples with the meaning of HIV/AIDS: for him as he confronts the possibility of his own lingering death, and for all of us in facing up to one of the most desperate challenges of...0 points

AIDS Orphans Rising: What You Should Know and What You Can Do To Help Them Succeed by Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd

Every 14 seconds a Child Headed Household is forme more...0 points

Every 14 seconds a Child Headed Household is formed. The death of parents from AIDS leaves behind little children, often four or five of them, who desperately want to stay together as a family. In the literature, they call them Child Headed Households. Imagine watching your mother and father slowly die before your eyes, leaving you to bury them and then to raise and care for your younger brothers and sisters. AIDS Orphans Rising takes you through the daily lives of these children.0 points

AIDS in America by Susan Hunter

With more than one million people currently infect more...0 points

With more than one million people currently infected and half a million already dead, the U.S. ranks among the top ten most severe AIDS epidemics in the world. Americans should know more about the current state of the epidemic so they can protect themselves and demand that the government act responsibly to reduce the danger of HIV in this country. Hunter exposes the ways in which the U.S. shamefully resembles a developing country, and the many fronts on which the government has failed to control...0 points

Children Of Africa Confront AIDS: From Vulnerability To Possibility (Ohio RIS Africa Series)

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AIDS.gov

HIV/AIDS information from the Federal government a more...0 points

HIV/AIDS information from the Federal government about prevention, testing, treatment, research, programs, policies, and resources.0 points

CDC HIV/AIDS

CDC provides leadership for HIV prevention researc more...0 points

CDC provides leadership for HIV prevention research and surveillance and the development and testing of effective biomedical interventions to reduce t...0 points

WHO | WHO and HIV/AIDS

The HIV/AIDS Department provides evidence-based, t more...0 points

The HIV/AIDS Department provides evidence-based, technical support to WHO Member States to help them scale up treatment, care and prevention services...0 points

UNAIDS: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ more...0 points

UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, is an innovative joint venture of the United Nations family, bringing together the efforts and...0 points

HIV/AIDS Awareness Days

Throughout the year, health departments, community more...0 points

Throughout the year, health departments, community-based organizations, faith organizations, and other groups and individuals participate in annual na...0 points

Living Well with HIV & AIDS by Allen Gifford, Kate Lorig, Diana Laurent, Virginia Gonzalez

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Based on the current care guidelines from the CDC and elsewhere, this book addresses the current emphasis on managing the side effects of HIV/AIDS such as lypodystrophy, redistribution of body fat, cardiac risks, and vulnerability to other ailments. Combining the latest medical advice with the ideas of hundreds of people living with HIV/AIDS, the book is particularly helpful for friends, family members, and others who make up the support network for anyone struggling with HIV/AIDS.0 points

Built To Survive: HIV Wellness Guide Fourth Edition by Michael Mooney, Nelson Vergel

How to treat HIV comprehensively with anti-retrovi more...0 points

How to treat HIV comprehensively with anti-retrovirals, and complementary therapies, including anabolic steroids. This first-of-its-kind guide promotes the medical use of anabolic steroids, admittedly illegal, for the HIV+ population's long-term survival. The book details everything relevant about anabolic hormones, appetite stimulants, proper diet, new dietary supplements, and optimal exercise programs--all backed with extensive and current research, which is * championed by prominent physician...0 points

The First Year: HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed (First Year, The) by Brett Grodeck

This supportive resource explores the next generat more...0 points

This supportive resource explores the next generation of HIV/AIDS drugs and also includes new research on HIV and crystal meth, as well as new insights for the hardest hit population - African Americans.0 points

100 Questions and Answers About HIV and AIDS by Joel Gallant

100 Questions and Answers about HIV and AIDSprovid more...0 points

100 Questions and Answers about HIV and AIDSprovides answers to the most common questions asked by people with HIV and AIDS, their partners, and their family members. Written by an internationally recognized HIV expert from Johns Hopkins University with commentary by two HIV-positive patients, this is an invaluable resource for people with HIV infection or for those who care about them. It also includes useful information for HIV-negative readers on prevention and testing.0 points

The Sanford Guide to HIV/AIDS Therapy (Sanfords Guides) by Jay P. Sanford

As the AIDS epidemic continues to explode around t more...0 points

As the AIDS epidemic continues to explode around the world with uncontrolled spread antiretroviral therapy for HIV in the western world, where drugs are readily available, continues to improve. But significant long-term metoabolic and peripheral nerve toxicities have now emerged as complicating problems. Care of the HIV-infected patient is becoming increasingly complicated and today most patients are managed by teams of health care providers that focus on HIV/AIDS. This approach has been highly....0 points

The Guide to Living with HIV Infection: Developed at the Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) by John G. Bartlett, Ann K. Finkbeiner

The Guide to Living with HIV Infection is the most more...0 points

The Guide to Living with HIV Infection is the most complete source of medical, emotional, social, and practical advice available for those infected with HIV and their loved ones. Developed at the Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic, the guide provides essential information for making decisions about treatment and testing in a world transformed by new research and pharmacotherapy.

In this thoroughly updated sixth edition, Dr. John Bartlett and Ann K. Finkbeiner address the latest information about risks of....

The African AIDS Epidemic: A History by John Iliffe

This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a muc more...0 points

This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History answers President Thabo Mbeki's provocative question as to why Africa has suffered this terrible epidemic. While Mbeki attributed the causes to poverty and exploita-tion, others have looked to distinctive sexual systems practiced in African cultures and communities. John Iliffe stresses histori...0 points

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts

Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, And more...0 points

Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve 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 allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat.0 points

Global AIDS: Myths and Facts, Tools for Fighting the AIDS Pandemic by Alexander Irwin, Joyce Millen

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AIDS is the most devastating communicable disease in history, and structures of poverty and injustice are magnifying the crisis in underresourced countries.

More than 36 million people are infected with HIV/AIDS-the vast majority of them in the poor world, or in poor and marginalized communities within wealthy countries. And since AIDS was first recognized in the early 1980s, 13 million children have been orphaned and 22 million people have died from the disease.

Irwin and Millen, co-authors of....

Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath by Andrew Holleran

Andrew Holleran's Ground Zero, first published in more...0 points

Andrew Holleran's Ground Zero, first published in 1988 and consisting of 23 Christopher Street essays from the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, was hailed by the Washington Post as one of the best dispatches from the epidemic's height.0 points

AIDS in the Twenty-First Century, Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Disease and Globalization by Tony Barnett, Alan Whiteside

First published in 2002, AIDS in the Twenty-First more...0 points

First published in 2002, AIDS in the Twenty-First Century met with widespread praise from researchers and policy makers. This edition is fully revised to take account of the latest facts and developments in the field. All statistics and evidence have been updated and their meanings reconsidered. Latest developments in vaccines, anti-retroviral treatments and microbicides are discussed along with information about the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, T...0 points