aids (disease)

In a quiet upper-class New England town, a family is forced to confront a bitter crisis when an eleven-year-old girl contracts AIDS.

An overview of the history, biology, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and future research of AIDS.

In alternating voices, thirteen-year-old Rosa and her mother are trying to adopt a Tanzanian child in England, while in Tanzania, nine-year-old Abela watches her family die and her uncle illegally sends her to England, in the hopes of selling her.

A concise introduction to the AIDS virus that provides information on the disease's history, transmission, symptoms, and treatments.

A collection of editorials on the AIDS crisis and its implications for the nation.

Tells about AIDS through the story of a twenty-nine-year-old mother of two who has the disease.

Stories and discussion questions focus on the AIDS disease describing how the virus is transmitted, who is at risk, and the disease's damaging effects on the body's immune system.

Microbiologist Peter Piot describes studying the Ebola virus in Central Africa in the 1970s, and traveling through Africa when the AIDS epidemic broke out.