aids (disease)

Discusses the relationship between drug abuse and AIDS.

Explores the issue of AIDS, discussing such aspects as sex, condom use, peer pressure, drug use, and decision making.

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.

Slim watches over her father, a disarmingly charismatic man, as his struggle with AIDS reaches its climax.

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

High school journalists Jess and Molly create an upheaval at school and in their community as they strive to write and publish a series of frank articles about AIDS for their school newspaper.

Sixteen-year-old Anne Wingate is diagnosed HIV positive as a result of an earlier transfusion with tainted blood. She spends the summer on a ranch out west where she meets Morgan. Is there time for Anne and Morgan?.

Describes the history of the AIDS and HIV epidemic, the prevention and treatment of this disease, and its future impact on the world.

Latina novelist Alma Huebner begs off joining her husband on a humanitarian mission to the Dominican Republic to work on her next book, and finds herself becoming obsessed with the life of her subject--a woman who hand-picked a group of orphan boys to serve as live carriers of the small pox virus in order to provide Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis a ready supply of vaccine with which to inoculate the populations of Spain's American colonies in 1803.