aids (disease)

Seventeen-year-old Karen persists in renewing an old friendship with her classmate Connie when Connie comes down with AIDS, despite pressure from other students, her mother, and her best friends.

Examines the history of AIDS and its impact on the global community, and discusses the AIDS stigma, prevention, and treatments.

An informative analysis of the medical, social, and political dimensions of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome discusses misconceptions about the disease and examines the search for a cause, treatment, and cure.

"After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living among the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild--her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines is the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community whose ordinariness once drove her away; and she cannot turn her back on friends and family who sorely need her in the face of impending trouble and tragedy. Besides which, that one unthinkable, unmistakable thing is now happening to her: Ava Johnson is falling in love."--back cover.

Contains helpful information for persons who are HIV-positive, including dealing with emotional problems, legal rights, and more.

Provides information on how AIDS is transmitted, how to avoid it, and the importance of getting tested and treated.