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  • North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS

    Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South

    by Stephen J. Inrig ...
    Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adolescents living with the virus. Moreover, the epidemic disproportionately affects African American communities across the region. Using the history ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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

    by Jonny Steinberg ...
    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

  • Virus Hunt

    The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs

    by Dorothy H. Crawford ...
    The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Republic of Therapy

    Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS

    by Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Arjun Appadurai, Jean L. Comaroff, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen focuses on the period between 1994, when effective antiretroviral treatments for HIV were discovered, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS

    by Elizabeth Pisani ...
    A flame-throwing epidemiologist talks about sex, drugs, and the mistakes (dismal), ideologies (vicious), and hopes (realistic) of international AIDS prevention.When people ask Elizabeth Pisani what she does for a living, she says, "sex and drugs." As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, she's been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen years. With swashbuckling wit and ... Read more

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  • 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

    $31.69 USD

  • 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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  • Control AIDS Thru Homoeopathy

    by Dr R K Kapoor ...
    A case of AIDS is a war, a fierce battle between HIV and the treating physician, a battle that he never dreamt of, and one that he never witnessed.This is manifested by the fact that though the Founder of Homoeopathy Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann wrote six volumes on Organon of Medicine and made various changes yet he did not give instructions to withdraw any of the volume or its ... Read more

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  • Updates in HIV and AIDS: Part I, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics

    by Michael S. Saag, MD ...
    Series Book Volume 28-3 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    This first part of a 2-part issue of Infectious Disease Clinics, edited by Michael S. Saag, MD and Henry Masur, MD, is devoted to HIV/AIDS. This issue will cover global epidemiology; testing, staging, and evaluation; linkage to care, retention in care; antiretroviral therapy: current drugs, when to start, what to start, failure; update on opportunistic infections; HIV co-morbidities; and co ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • 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

    $48.59 USD

  • HIV and Endocrine Disorders, An Issue of Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America

    by Paul Hruz, MD, PhD ...
    Series Book Volume 43-3 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    This issue of Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Paul Hruz, is devoted to HIV and Endocrine Disorders. Articles in this issue include: Dyslipidemia and cardiovascular risk in HIV infection; Changes in nutritional concerns in HIV/AIDS; HIV Lipodystrophy: Lessons learned about adipose tissue and metabolic disorders; Hypogonadism in the HIV infected male; Gonadal function and ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • 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

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