Author: Test Positive Aware Network (Chicago)Publisher:
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Positively Aware
Author: Test Positive Aware Network (Chicago)Publisher:
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Positively Aware
Author: Never Silent
Author: Peter StaleyPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1641601450
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"Never Silent is a gorgeous book . . . Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who's thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world." —Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Angels in America 2022 Lambda Literary Award Finalist The previously untold stories of the life of the leading subject in David France's How To Survive A Plague, Peter Staley, including his continuing activism In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. After four years on Wall Street as a closeted gay man, Staley was familiar with the homophobia common on trading floors. He also knew that he was not beyond the reach of HIV, having recently been diagnosed with AIDS-Related Complex. A week after the protest, Staley found his way to a packed meeting of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power—ACT UP—in the West Village. It would prove to be the best decision he ever made. ACT UP would change the course of AIDS, pressuring the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, and three administrations to finally respond with research that ultimately saved millions of lives. Staley, a shrewd strategist with nerves of steel, organized some of the group's most spectacular actions, from shutting down trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to putting a giant condom over the house of Senator Jesse Helms. Never Silent is the inside story of what brought Staley to ACT UP and the explosive and sometimes painful years to follow—years filled with triumph, humiliation, joy, loss, and persistence. Never Silent is guaranteed to inspire the activist within all of us.
Positively Conscious
Author: Deborah E ChesterPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467002399
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
We live in a fast-paced, materialistic world where the desire to 'acquire' appears to have taken precedence over everything else. In our high-tech society, electronic devices practically think for us. Whilst governments grapple with solutions to control global climate, we continue polluting our beautiful planet to the point of endangering its ecological balance and survival. Man has patented over one million chemicals, yet illness and disease have increased at the same rate as chemical production and exposure.Obesity levels in the Western World have now reached epidemic proportions, and those suffering from stress, depression, heart disease, cancer and diabetes are at their highest levels ever recorded. Despite the medical and technological advancements of recent years, statistics show that more people than ever before are disillusioned with their lives, with millions dependent on high doses of medication, alcohol and recreational drugs to get through the day.Unless radical action is taken to change the way we live and how we treat our environment, it is likely that we are on a collision course with disaster of cataclysmic proportions. 'Positively Conscious' takes an in-depth look at what is happening in our world today, offering positive suggestions and solutions to deal with the issues and problems we all face. This energy-shifting, awareness-raising book is a 'must-read' for all of you who wish to enhance, enrich and enlightenyour life and transform that of the planet we inhabit - before it is too late.
Positively Aware
Author: Positively Aware November/December 1994
Author: Positively Aware
Author: Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309439124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.
Remaking a Life
Author: Celeste Watkins-HayesPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520968735
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change—and what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago-based women living with HIV/AIDS, Celeste Watkins-Hayes takes readers on an uplifting journey through women’s transformative projects, a multidimensional process in which women shift their approach to their physical, social, economic, and political survival, thereby changing their viewpoint of “dying from” AIDS to “living with” it. With an eye towards improving the lives of women, Remaking a Life provides techniques to encourage private, nonprofit, and government agencies to successfully collaborate, and shares policy ideas with the hope of alleviating the injuries of inequality faced by those living with HIV/AIDS everyday.
Positively Aware: The Monthly Journal of Test Positive Aware Network, December 1991
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Pages : 40
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A 40-page, black-and-white booklet with blue accents comprises the December 1991 issue of Positively Aware, the journal of the Test Positive Aware Network. The cover shows a photo of basketball player 'Magic' Johnson' who, the month before, had become one of the first major heterosexual celebrities to announce his HIV-positive status.