aids (disease)

"The prejudice of the U.S. government and medical community allowed a disease that could have been contained to spread into a global pandemic. Readers will follow this . . . disease from its . . . refuted origins in gay communities all the way to the current medical developments. This book will also describe how a powerful LGBTQ+ activist movement diverted its attention to the wreckage caused by the HIV and AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 90s"--Provided by publisher.

Readers will follow this devastating HIV disease from its recently refuted origins in gay communities all the way to the current medical developments.

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.

Binti and her siblings are orphaned when their father dies of AIDS. Split up and sent to relatives all over Malawi, they suffer increasing hardship until they are reunitied through the influence of their formidable grandmother.

"In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster"--Provided by publisher.

NIV infection rates have changed dramatically in recent years. Women and minorities are now the fastest growing groups of AIDS patients. Hear how some HIV-positive people have dealt with their disease and discover how doctors have taken new approaches to treatment. Learn the astonishing progress researchers have made in the battle against AIDS. People who are HIV-positive can survive because powerful drugs keep the disease in check. Scientists are busy working on an AIDS vaccine by studying people who have a natural immunity to the disease.

" ... [A collection of poetry that] addresses race, class, sexuality, faith, social justice, mortality, and the challenges of living HIV positive at the intersection of black and queer identity ..."--OCLC.

A collection of essays that provides varying perspectives on issues relating to AIDS and other lethal viruses and pandemics.

Presents the autobiography of notable LGBTQ figure Cleve Jones. Details events such as his time in San Francisco during 1970s, the impact the assassination of Harvey Milk had on the gay community, the AIDS epidemic that killed numerous friends, and the founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the AIDS Memorial Quilt.