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  • ABC of HIV and AIDS

    Edited by Michael W. Adler, Simon G. Edwards, Robert F. Miller, Gulshan Sethi, Ian Williams ...
    Series Book 220 - ABC Series
    An authoritative guide to the epidemiology, incidence, testing and diagnosis and management of HIV and AIDS.From an international expert editor and contributor team, this new sixth edition includes expanded coverage of HIV testing, assessment and routine follow up and new chapters outlining problematic conditions associated with HIV and AIDS. Prevention strategies, early diagnosis and ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

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    A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic

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    At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his poverty-stricken village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, a son of old South West African stock, wants to show the world that if you provide decent treatment, people will come and get it, no matter their circumstances.Sizwe and Hermann live at the epicenter of the greatest plague of our times, the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • I Have Something to Tell You

    A Memoir

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    For ten years, Regan Hofmann lived a double life. To the world, she was a woman from Princeton who went to prep school, summered in the Hamptons and rode Thoroughbred horses. She had a great job, a loving family and friends and looks that made men turn their heads. From the outside, she seemed to have it all. On the inside, though, coursing through her veins and weighing heavily on her mind, was ... Read more

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  • Man No Be God

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    man no be God is a story of a willing and driven Canadian doctor who spent his life immersed in the wonderful, complex and interesting lives of the people of western Cameroon. The individuals he went to learn from, to serve, to encourage, to support, and to befriend together provide a fascinating look at familiar struggles and triumphs in an unfamiliar setting. There is nothing more fulfilling or ... Read more

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  • AIDS Between Science and Politics

    by Peter Piot ...
    Translated by Laurence Garey ...
    Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only catastrophic to the health of millions worldwide but also fractured international relations, global access to new technologies, and public ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Workable Sisterhood

    The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

    by Michele Tracy Berger ...
    Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people with HIV? Michele Tracy Berger argues that it is the influence of a phenomenon she labels ... Read more

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  • Voices in the Band

    A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful

    by Susan C. Ball ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    "I am an AIDS doctor. When I began that work in 1992, we knew what caused AIDS, how it spread, and how to avoid getting it, but we didn't know how to treat it or how to prevent our patients' seemingly inevitable progression toward death. The stigma that surrounded AIDS patients from the very beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s continued to be harsh and isolating. People looked askance at ... Read more

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  • Ebola Crisis: Its Origins, Treatment, & Future in the U.S. and the World

    by Joseph Spark ...
    In March 2014, an outbreak of Ebola was reported in Guinea. This is the first time the disease had hit this country and locals as well as health authorities were admittedly ill prepared to deal with the menace. Therefore, the virus spread rapidly throughout several communities in the country. Reports indicate that the first victim was a child who died late in 2013. The infections soon spread to ... Read more

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  • Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

    Valuing All Families under the Law

    by Nancy D. Polikoff, Michael Bronski ...
    Series Book 3 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    The debate over marriage equality for same-sex couples rages across the country. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage boldly moves the discussion forward by focusing on the larger, more fundamental issue of marriage and the law. The root problem, asserts law professor and LGBT rights activist Nancy Polikoff, is that marriage is a bright dividing line between those relationships that legally matter ... Read more

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  • AIDS Doctors

    Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History

    by Ronald Bayer, Gerald M. Oppenheimer ...
    Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the limit of their diagnostic abilities, a select group of courageous physicians nevertheless persevered. ... Read more

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  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases

    Vaccines, Prevention, and Control

    Edited by Lawrence R. Stanberry, Susan L Rosenthal ...
    The last decade has seen a huge amount of change in the area of sexually transmitted infection control and prevention, including the development of high-profile vaccines for preventing the spread of cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV), novel control methods for HIV and AIDS, and even the discussion of more widespread use of controversial abstinence-only sex education programs. Fully ... Read more

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  • Crying for Our Elders

    African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS

    by Kristen E. Cheney ...
    The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in Crying for Our Elders, anthropologist Kristen E. Cheney argues that these humanitarian groups have misread the ‘orphan crisis’. She explains how the global ... Read more

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