Aids category: 18535 books
by Frances Kay
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Book 2 of the Smart Skills series: practical guides to mastering vital business skills and techniques. Using proven strategies from business experts, these essential smart skills can empower anyone with the tools to get ahead.
Everything you need to know about presenting- a must have for any...
Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa
Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
This book examines young African's sexual relationships in the context of village life. It is based on a large in-depth qualitative study in Tanzania, in a region typical of rural sub-Saharan Africa. It describes how dominant community values both discouraged and encouraged adolescent sexual activity....
Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS
Community-Based Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
A comprehensive health care system consists of services that are coordinated and integrated along the full continuum of care. For HIV patients, this includes physical health care, infectious disease management, crisis care, mental health care, substance abuse counseling, and social support services...
Living with HIV
A Patient's Guide, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In its updated and expanded second edition, this helpful guide offers a wealth of information for people living with HIV and for people caring for HIV–positive loved ones. All aspects of HIV/AIDS are discussed, including opportunistic and associated infections, dental care, exercise and nutrition,...
Virus Hunt
The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home...
by Dorothy Roberts (Editor), Rhoda Reddock (Editor), Drs Diane Douglas and Sandra Reid (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Proceeding from the premise that gender influences sexuality and sexual behaviour, Sex, Power and Taboo provides an interdisciplinary exploration of how gender affects HIV risk and prevention. The paradigm of HIV and AIDS research is shifted by illuminating the influence of gender ideologies, norms...
Responding to HIV/AIDS
Tough Questions, Direct Answers
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
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Mistreated
The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
As global health institutions and aid donors expanded HIV treatment throughout Africa, they rapidly "scaled up" programs, projects, and organizations meant to address HIV and AIDS. Yet these efforts did not simply have biological effects: in addition to extending lives and preventing further...
The Endangered Self
Identity and Social Risk
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
To date, the majority of HIV/AIDS research has concentrated on education and prevention for those with a seronegative status, while studies of HIV positive individuals have been concerned with their potential to infect others. The Endangered Self however, focuses on how the discovery of an HIV positive...
Without Condoms
Unprotected Sex, Gay Men and Barebacking
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
After years of activism, risk awareness, and AIDS prevention, increasing numbers of gay men are not using condoms, and new infections of HIV are on the rise. Using case studies and exhaustive survey research, this timely, groundbreaking book allows men who have unprotected sex, a practice now known...
The HIV-Negative Gay Man
Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
In The HIV-Negative Gay Man: Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being, you’ll get instant access to some of the most recent information on the market today about remaining HIV-negative. You’ll come in contact with a wealth of information concerning the psychosocial and psychosexual...
Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement
Committed to Home
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
In Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home, Sheila R. Morris has collected essays by South Carolinians who explore their gay identities and activism from the emergence of the HIV-AIDS pandemic to the realization of marriage equality in the state thirty years later. Each of the...
by Cyrus Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
Introduction
I. The numerals in the Dresden Codex
II. Conclusions
III. The writing
Signification of the characters
Symbols of animals &c.
Symbols of deities
Sexual Cultures in East Asia
The Social Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary perspective, documented with sociological and anthropological data, to historical studies and looks at commercial sex work, kinship...