aids (disease)

Introduces readers to AIDS, the disease caused by HIV viruses, tells how people become infected and how to avoid infection.

An introduction to AIDS that provides information on the disease's causes, transmission, symptoms, treatment, and effect on families and communities and explores how governments have attempted to stop the spread of the disease and treat AIDS epidemics in third-world countries.

Thirteen-year-old Emmy, grieving over her mother who died of AIDS, resentful of having to live with her father and pregnant stepmother, and despairing about her future, finds hope at a summer camp for HIV-positive girls like herself. Includes facts about Elizabeth Glaser, one of the founders of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

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 reunited through the influence of their formidable grandmother.

Presents the stories of children from the African nations of Malawi and Zambia whose lives have been touched by AIDS, and provides facts about the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

Provides a synopsis of HIV/AIDS including its origins before the 1950s and world awareness of the disease in the 1980s, how it is spread, treatment and vaccines, as well as a list of AIDS organizations.

Chandra Kabelo, a sixteen-year-old in a small South African town, faces down shame and stigma in her efforts to help friends and family members who are dying of AIDS.

A family reminisces while gathered together to make a panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt in memory of a beloved uncle.