Author: Nancy Shilian
Publisher:
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Maurene J. Hinds
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9780766026834
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Desribes the history of the AIDS and HIV epidemic, the prevention and treatment of this disease, and its future impact on the world.

Author: Yolanda Tayler
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821358481
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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This technical guide examines the elements required to establish and ensure continuity of supplies, including HIV/AIDS medicines and other commodities, for programs scaling up antiretroviral therapy (Art) and associated health services. It provides extensive guidance on key topics: Quality Assurance, Selection & Quantification methods, Intellectual Property Rights, Procurement Strategies, Pricing & Financing, the Supply Cycle and Policy Issues.

Author: David W. Driver
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532007175
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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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, she began to experience numbness in her right hand, fingers, and mouthand then the numbness spread to her entire right arm. Shortly after being diagnosed she came down with pneumonia, usually a very deadly illness in the AIDS community, but she left the hospital a relatively healthy woman. Then came the PML decease that took her life while she was at home. David was relieved when his blood test for HIV came back negative, but his young daughter, Jordyn, was not so lucky. She was diagnosed as having the HIV virus and was expected to live only several more years. Twenty-six years later, Jordyn is enjoying the best health she has ever had thanks to the proper medical treatment. Join David as he shares a scary and inspirational story of survival that can help others going through a similar journey.

Author: Mary Colson
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1482413337
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is the infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV attacks the immune system, sometimes with fatal consequences. Though the first reported case was only in 1959, an estimated 40 million people now live with AIDS or HIV. This valuable book discusses the history of this previously unknown disease, what scientists discovered about its transmission, and the current treatments and vaccines used to battle it. Relevant photographs and quotes from those in the field are among the highlights, as well as a focus on the critical impact of education and healthy lifestyle choices.

Author: Ananth Raman
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Dan Royles
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469659514
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fight the epidemic and its consequences from the beginning of the AIDS activist movement. They struggled not only to overcome the stigma and denial surrounding a "white gay disease" in Black America, but also to bring resources to struggling communities that were often dismissed as too "hard to reach." To Make the Wounded Whole offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists, including medical professionals, Black gay intellectuals, church pastors, Nation of Islam leaders, recovering drug users, and Black feminists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts. Through interlinked stories from Philadelphia and Atlanta to South Africa and back again, Royles documents the diverse, creative, and global work of African American activists in the decades-long battle against HIV/AIDS.

Author: Nellie Bristol
Publisher:
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763662054
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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"An accessible, informative, insider’s view, this book reminds readers that there is still a long way to go." — Kirkus Reviews Weaving together her own story with straightforward questions and answers, the author explains the real ways that HIV/AIDS can be transmitted and explores the common experiences and emotions that might be encountered by friends and family members of someone who has the virus. She also discusses why HIV/AIDS is often still kept a secret and the importance of treating this condition like any other. With up-to-date medical information that has been thoroughly vetted by experts, this first-person narrative offers an invaluable look at what it is like to watch someone you know battle HIV/AIDS. Back matter includes a glossary, a bibliography, and resources for further information.

Author: Nancy A. Draper
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1418451061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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A Burden of Silence: My Mothers Battle with AIDS, is a heartwarming story of an affectionate bond between a daughter and her sixty-six year old mother who was transfused with HIV positive blood during heart bypass surgery. It will evoke emotions of faith, inspiration, anger, and overwhelming love. The reader will also smile at the funny, tender moments that Ms. Draper writes about in her story. This is a devoted daughters story of her elderly mothers painful and lonely journey through AIDS. Because her mother was not part of a so-called AIDS risk group, she felt ignored, rejected, stigmatized, and ashamed. For years, she suffered in excruciating silence. Nancy has given her mothers story a voice. There are lessons for everyone in this booklessons about acceptance, compassion, and forgiveness. -Ann Webster, Ph.D., director, HIV/AIDS Program, Mind/Body Institute, Boston, MA Nancy Draper has written a tender account of a daughters devotion to her dying mother. This story about a grandmother who developed AIDS from a contaminated blood transfusion, will inspire admiration for Ms. Drapers courage and persistence. It will also inspire rage against the blood banks that failed to screen blood donations adequately. -Ann Pozen, Psy.D., president, National Association for Victims of Transfusion-Acquired AIDS, Inc., Bethesda, MD This book is a must readIt teaches us about the importance of embracing AIDS patients as human beings. We need to provide them with compassion and empathy instead of treating them as if they were dirty untouchable, unworthy people. In the end, I believe it is people like Nancys mother teaching us about love and acceptance. Hopefully, her dying in silence will wake us up! -Maggie Sund, Ph.D., Central Oregon Counseling and Coaching Nancy Drapers mother told her, I want you to write about me having AIDS because I dont want anyone else to suffer in silence like we have. Nancys mother must be very proud of her and this account of three years of fear, heartache, some good days and always deep love. Here Nancy tells the rest of a story that she summarized in our March 1999 issue and wrote under a pseudonym. Thanks, Nancy!" -Father Pat McCloskey, O.F.M., Editor, St. Anthony Messenger