aids (disease)

Offers students an overview of HIV and AIDS, explaining what it is, how the disease can impact a person's life, how it is transmitted, and what treatments are available.

Includes articles that present different viewpoints on various aspects of AIDS, such as the seriousness of the problem, moral issues, prevention, and treatment. Includes critical thinking activities.

"Drawing on the latest medical science, case studies, policy research, and hard-earned epidemiological lessons, "Deadliest Enemy" explores the resources and programs we need to develop if we are to keep ourselves safe from infectious disease"--Dust jacket.

"Now 79 years old, Sister Abegail looks back over her life and recounts the ... events that led to her becoming the mother of dozens of children orphaned by the AIDS crisis in South Africa"--Provided by publisher.

"When AIDS devastates thirteen-year-old Auma's village in Kenya during the 1980s, Auma must choose between staying to help her family and working toward a track scholarship that will take her away from home"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the history and treatment of HIV and AIDS.

"From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name--an Oscar nominee--the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight. Intimately reported, this is the story of the men and women who, watching their friends and lovers fall, ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted with shame and hatred, chose to fight for their right to live. We witness the founding of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), the rise of an underground drug market in opposition to the prohibitively expensive (and sometimes toxic) AZT, and the gradual movement toward a lifesaving medical breakthrough. With his unparalleled access to this community David France illuminates the lives of extraordinary characters, including the closeted Wall Street trader-turned-activist; the high school dropout who found purpose battling pharmaceutical giants in New York; the South African physician who helped establish the first officially recognized buyers' club at the height of the epidemic; and the public relations executive fighting to save his own life for the sake of his young daughter. Expansive yet richly detailed, this is an insider's account of a pivotal moment in the history of American civil rights"--.

Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, nearly penniless, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. Jones found community--in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers, in the city's bathhouses and gay bars like The Stud, and in the burgeoning gay district, the Castro, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop, began shouting through his bullhorn, and soon became the nation's most outspoken gay elected official. With Milk's encouragement, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in "the movement." When Milk was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1978, Jones took up his mentor's progressive mantle--only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again.

A dramatization of Randy Shilts's best seller on the first several years of the AIDS crisis in the U.S., in which Centers for Disease Control researcher Don Francis investigates a series of mysterious deaths and is met with resistance from the government, the media, and the communities hardest hit as he tries to understand and protect the public from the new disease.

The story of Jonathan, a six-year-old who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion which was administered following his premature birth.