aids (disease)

Examines some of the new and resurgent diseases that pose a threat to global public health in the early twenty-first century including AIDS and avian flu, and discusses the urgent need to strengthen global public health systems.

A story of two lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.

"Each year hundreds of thousands of people die from HIV/AIDS globally, making it one of the world's most deadly infectious diseases. Beginning in the late 1980s, breakthroughs in research brought treatments that could control HIV and prevent the onset of AIDS. For Americans aged 25 to 44, HIV/AIDS is the sixth most frequent cause of death"--Provided by publisher.

The author explores the emotions and feelings of friends and family members of someone who has been diagnosed with the HIV virus, and discusses medical information and the importance of receiving treatment immediately.

A history of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s spotlights the heroic efforts of AIDS activists who fought for medical research and new medicines, for proper health care for patients, and for compassionate recognition of people with AIDS.

"Interwoven with photographs of the people lost, this memoir chronicles the AIDS pandemic from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, up until the death of the author's partner.".

Alice MacCauley's eleventh summer is shaped by new friendship, the twinges of first love, and adult lessons about life and death when she and Theo, a New York City boy of mixed race visiting his white New England grandparents, become the companions of Kenneth, an artist dying of and losing his eyesight to AIDS, reading him the journals of Lewis and Clark and building him a secret "rope walk" through the woods.

"Iris opens her eyes to hard truths and the power of her voice when her father dies of AIDS in 1987"--Provided by the publisher.

In 1990 New York City, eighteen-year-olds Adam and Ben learn to navigate life, love, and loss as gay teens during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

"Calvin Johnston's secret is out. He and his brothers are tainted. Untouchable. And the bad blood flowing through their veins is threatening to kill them. So are some of their neighbors in Ashland, the 'Friendliest Little Town' in Florida. The Johnston brothers are kicked out of everything--school, baseball, scouts, even church. Ashland's anger has erupted into a fireball of hate. The only silver lining is that Calvin's best friend Izzy lives 65 miles away at the beach, and has no idea about his secret. But news has a way of spreading. Calvin and his brothers are in the fight of their lives. As a matter of fact, they're fighting for life itself"--Jacket flap.