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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...
Scrambling for Africa
AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted by some of the most prestigious research universities...
Morality, Hope and Grief
Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order...
Piecing the Puzzle
The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg...
Live Long and Prosper
How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This pioneering new study of the Black megachurch phenomenon brings nuance and depth to the question, Are Black megachurches more focused on prosperity than on people?
Black megachurches and their pastors are often accused of failing to use their considerable resources to help the poor; focusing...
by Tom Glenn
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Washington, D.C., 1985. Peter, a gay dancer, dying of AIDS, thirsts for forgiveness for causing the death of a young man with whom he had sex. Martin, a straight college professor, grieves over the loss of his favorite student, killed by AIDS. He volunteers to act as a buddy to an AIDS patient and is...
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...
Positive
Living with HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Positive is an account of a special life fearlessly told, as well as a chronicle of an era. Fifteen years ago, HIV and AIDS meant one thing - death. In 1984 David Menadue was one of the first people to be diagnosed with HIV in Australia. He was just 30 years old and thought it unlikely he would make...
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,...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
This regulation establishes Army policies and responsibilities for life cycle management of the following areas only as they pertain to training: training aids, devices, simulators, and simulations (TADSS), including tactical engagement simulation (TES), targetry, combat training centers, gaming technologies,...
by William H. Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic. The introduction of transfusion held great promise for improving health, but...
Couples of Mixed HIV Status
Clinical Issues and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Examine the unique emotional challenges and issues that face couples of mixed HIV status today!
Previous books on this subject-mostly written in the days when HIV/AIDS was considered a fatal rather than a chronic disease-focused on end-of-life issues. However, Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical...
by Robert T. Maupin Jr., MD FACOG, Rebecca A. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Written by three experts with extensive experience helping people with HIV/AIDS, this trusted resource is the complete guide to better physical and emotional health for women living with HIV or AIDS. It covers the full range of health and emotional issues faced by people with HIV while also addressing...
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...