Aids category: 18535 books
by Alan Whiteside
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Yet the outlook today is a little...
by Denny Highben
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
“On the Brink: The Coming of AIDS” -- There is a spiritual reality to mankind that is eternal, and spiritual reasons for all of man’s successes and failures, joys and sorrows. So it is with AIDS, the monstrous disease identified as “The Leveler” by the beacon of enlightenment which has come...
The Invisible People
How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
The Invisible People is a revealing and at times shocking look inside the United States's response to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known -- the global AIDS crisis. A true story of politics, bureaucracy, disease, internecine warfare, and negligence, it illustrates that while...
Who's Gonna Notice Anyway
Er Nurse Manager Deals with Aids
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
A career woman, proud and successful, a Nursing supervisor, wants things her way. She gets life on her terms until she deals with AIDS in her professional and personal life. Emergency Department supervisor, Mary , fights a budget and changing health care finances. She deals with an employees alcoholic...
The African AIDS Epidemic
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
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...
by David Green, MD, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Linked by Blood: Hemophilia and AIDS recounts the factors responsible for the widespread infection of people with hemophilia by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-contaminated blood and offers a prescription for addressing the challenges of future viral epidemics. The book describes the impact of...
by Dylan Sutherland, Jennifer Y.J. Hsu
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
South and East Asia may well become the epicentres of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. More than three-quarters of a million people are now estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS in China. In 2009, AIDS had already become the leading cause of death by infectious disease. Yet, even despite China’s recent...
A Plague on All Our Houses
Medical Intrigue, Hollywood, and the Discovery of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A frightening new plague. A medical mystery. A pioneering immunologist. In A Plague on All Our Houses, Dr. Bruce J. Hillman dissects the war of egos, money, academic power, and Hollywood clout that advanced AIDS research even as it compromised the career of the scientist who discovered the disease....
Fatal Advice
How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1996
The American public responded to the first cases of AIDS with fear and panic. Both policymakers and activists were concerned not only with stopping the spread of the disease, but also with guiding the public’s response toward those already infected. Fatal Advice is an examination of how the nation...
Childhood Sexuality and AIDS Education
The Price of Innocence
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Primary schoolchildren are frequently shielded from education on sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases in an effort to protect their innocence. In countries like South Africa, where AIDS is particularly widespread, it is especially important to address prevention with younger boys and girls...
by Joe Willmore
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A Simple, Effective Approach to Attaining Learning and Performance Results
Job aids are often the most practical way to get quick performance improvement, particularly in time-pressured, resource-constrained situations. Not sure where to begin, or even if a job aid is the right choice? Job...
by Eileen Stillwaggon
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain the spread of HIV/AIDS and deliver a telling critique of AIDS policy. Drawing on a wealth of scientific evidence, Stillwaggon demonstrates that HIV/AIDS cannot be stopped without understanding the ecology of...
Hold Tight Gently
Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-related...
Surviving Aids
The Many Stories of Survival in Our Twenty-Five Year Battle Against Hiv/Aids
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Surviving AIDS involves making all the right movesand even then, your life is at risk. David W. Driver knows that well: two years after getting married to his wife, Kari-Ann, he discovered that not only did she have HIV, but she was suffering from full-blown AIDS. The disease came on quickly. First,...