aids (disease)

Ava Johnson, the owner of a successful hair salon in Atlanta, moves back to her hometown of Idlewild, Michigan when she tests positive for HIV.

This book discusses current medical, social, and political issues concerning HIV and the AIDS virus.

Discusses the causes, symptoms, and treatment of AIDS and examines the advances made in slowing the progress of the disease and controlling some of the opportunistic infections.

Explores the nature of AIDS, its causes, ways of spreading, and effects on the lives of its victims, and discusses how misunderstanding of the disease may complicate the situation as it continues to spread.

Traces the origins of AIDS, discussing the HIV virus's ability to reproduce sexually which makes it better able to adapt to new hosts, and argues that the destruction of the rain forest is responsible for the spread of HIV as it has enabled the virus to jump from monkeys to humans.

Provides up-to-date answers to the most frequently asked questions about AIDS, curing common delusions about the disease, discussing safe sex, explaining HIV testing, and giving advice on coping with finding out your partner has the disease.

Provides an overview of HIV/AIDS and includes discussions on its symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

A girl's struggle amid the African AIDS pandemic, Chanda, is an astonishingly perceptive girl living in the small city of Bonang, a fictional city in Southern Africa. When her youngest sister dies, the first hint of HIV/AIDS emerges, Chanda must confront undercurrents of shame and stigma. Not afraid to explore the horrific realities of AIDS, Chanda's Secrets also captures the enduring strength of loyalty, friendship and family ties. Above all, this is a story about the corrosive nature of secrets and the healing power of truth.

Contains thirteen articles which provide insight into some of the controversies that arose in the scientific community and society in the first decade after the discovery of AIDS.

Details the stories of the three most serious and damaging diseases in history: the Black Death, smallpox, and AIDS.