Aids Hiv category: 276 books
The Republic of Therapy
Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen...
Indian Blood
HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies
The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "two-spirit"...
by S. Diane Barry
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
I was diagnosed with HIV in January 2005.
Over twelve years later, I’m healthy and doing well. I don’t have AIDS. My numbers are great.
I did this without prescription medications.
How? By fighting HIV with whole food nutrition, herbs, spices, and healthy lifestyle choices.
by S Diane Barry
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
I was diagnosed with HIV in January 2005.
Over twelve years later, I’m healthy and doing well. I don’t have AIDS. My numbers are great.
I did this without prescription medications.
How? By fighting HIV with whole food nutrition, herbs, spices, and healthy lifestyle choices.
Punishing Disease
HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized minorities—began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. Punishing Disease looks at how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal...
Love Is the Cure
On Life, Loss, and the End of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
A deeply personal account of Elton John's life during the era of AIDS and an inspiring call to action.
In the 1980s, Elton John saw friend after friend, loved one after loved one, perish needlessly from AIDS. He befriended Ryan White, a young Indiana boy ostracized because of his HIV infection....
AIDS as an International Political Issue
A Selection from AIDS Between Science and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), reports on the influence of civil society in international relations and traditional partisan divides. AIDS thrust health into national and international politics where, he argues, it rightly belongs....
HIV Positive in Thailand
Why Talk About It?
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
In 2009, there were an estimated 1,115,415 million people living with HIV in Thailand. Since then, the number of people living with HIV has almost doubled, so how can this beast be tamed? The key is HIV disclosure.However, many people living with HIV lack the tenacity to stand up and speak out about...
Infecting the Treatment
Being an HIV-Positive Analyst
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The revelation of being HIV positive continues to be a discourse fraught with meaning. In Infecting the Treatment: Being an HIV-Positive Analyst, Gilbert Cole offers an intimate and deeply insightful examination of disclosure of his HIV seropositivity on his analytic sense of self and on his clinical...
by Amy Hoffman, Urvashi Vaid
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1997
Hospital Time is a memoir about friendship, family, and caregiving in the age of AIDS. Amy Hoffman, a writer, lesbian activist, and former editor of Gay Community News, chronicles with fury and unflinching honesty her experience serving as primary caretaker for her friend and colleague, Mike Riegle,...
The AIDS Pandemic
Impact on Science and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2004
The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS has, and continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines it touches. Novel perspectives are provided by a unique panel of internationally recognised experts who cover the unprecedented impact onf AIDS on culture, demographics and politics...
AIDS Orphans Rising
What You Should Know and What You Can Do to Help Them Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
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...
Health of HIV Infected People
Food, Nutrition and Lifestyle without Antiretroviral Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Health of HIV Infected People: Food, Nutrition and Lifestyle Without Antiretroviral Drugs defines the supportive roles of bioactive foods, exercise, and dietary supplements on the health of HIV infected people who do not have access to resources or those who choose not to utilize antiretroviral drugs.
Approaches...
by Kathryn Pitkin Derose, David E. Kanouse, David P. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Describes the involvement of churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The authors describe the range of FBO activities and discuss the advantages and challenges to such involvement and possible ways that FBOs can enhance...