Author: Peter Aggleton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780750701310
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309042879
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Expanding on the 1989 National Research Council volume AIDS, Sexual Behavior, and Intravenous Drug Use, this book reports on changing patterns in the distribution of cases and the results of intervention efforts under way. It focuses on two important subpopulations that are becoming more and more at risk: adolescents and women. The committee also reviews strategies to protect blood supplies and to improve the quality of surveys used in AIDS research. AIDS: The Second Decade updates trends in AIDS cases and HIV infection among the homosexual community, intravenous drug users, women, minorities, and other groups; presents an overview of a wide range of behavioral intervention strategies directed at specific groups; discusses discrimination against people with AIDS and HIV infection; and presents available data on the proportion of teenagers engaging in the behaviors that can transmit the virus and on female prostitutes and HIV infection.

Author: Walt Odets, Ph.D.
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
ISBN: 1886330018
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"...well-written -- clear and methodical -- enabling readers to appreciate the more complex psychological factors...relevant not only to mental health professionals but also to other health care providers, social workers, and educators". -- Focus

Author: Earl E. Shelp
Publisher:
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Charles Garfield
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN: 9781555426347
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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All of us who have been involved with AIDS caregiving during the past decade share common challenges: multiple losses and accumulated grief, compassion fatigue, relentless uncertainty, maintaining our sense of hope, and more. As we listen to the voices of men and women at the front lines of the epidemic talk candidly about the risks and rewards of supporting someonw with HIV disease, the wisdom and courage we need to keep caring in the second decade can be found. Through intimate stories shared with Charles Garfield, we are provided with a guide to discovering how to be tough on problems and tAnder on people. These tapes show us how to truly be present for and make a difference to a person with HIV/AIDS.

Author: Earl E. Shelp
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664252021
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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"The authors provide important new information about the changing evolution of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the persons it is affecting, and its global impact. . . . Most important, it presents a compassionate and prophetic vision of what the church's response ought to be. . . ".--James B. Nelson, Professor of Christian Ethics, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, Minnesota.

Author: Federal Centre for AIDS (Canada). Working Group on HIV Infection and Mental Health
Publisher:
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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People living with the HIV disease have not only physical problems that threaten their mental health, they also have psychological, spiritual, socio-cultural, and socio-economic needs. This report describes the changing nature of HIV disease and mental health; the impact of HIV disease on mental health and on mental health services; mental health needs, barriers to needed services, and coping skills.

Author: Alan Whiteside OBE
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191578185
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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HIV/AIDS is without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Despite rapid scientific advances there is still no cure and the drugs are expensive and toxic. Because of controversies and taboos surrounding safe drug usage and prostitution, the numbers of people infected continues to rise. However, it is in the developing world and especially parts of Africa that the real catastrophe is unfolding. In some of the worst affected countries life expectancy has plummeted to below 35 years, which has led to a serious decline in economic growth, a sharp rise in orphaning, and the imminent collapse of health care systems. The news is not all bleak though. There have been unprecedented breakthroughs in understanding diseases and developing drugs. Because the disease is so closely linked to sexual activity and drug use, the need to understand and change behaviour has caused us to reassess what it means to be human and how we should operate in the globalising world. This Very Short Introduction provides an introduction to the disease, tackling the science, the international and local politics, the fascinating demographics, and the devastating consequences of the disease, and explores how we have — and must — respond. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author: Anthony M. Petro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199391297
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts. The target of their protest was the minister inside, who was handing out condoms to his congregation while delivering a sermon about AIDS, dramatizing the need for the church to confront the seemingly ever-expanding crisis. The minister's words and actions were met with a standing ovation from the overflowing audience, but he could not linger to enjoy their applause. Having received threats in advance of the service, he dashed out of the sanctuary immediately upon finishing his sermon. Such was the climate for religious AIDS activism in the 1980s. In After the Wrath of God, Anthony Petro vividly narrates the religious history of AIDS in America. Delving into the culture wars over sex, morality, and the future of the American nation, he demonstrates how religious leaders and AIDS activists have shaped debates over sexual morality and public health from the 1980s to the present day. While most attention to religion and AIDS foregrounds the role of the Religious Right, Petro takes a much broader view, encompassing the range of mainline Protestant, evangelical, and Catholic groups--alongside AIDS activist organizations--that shaped public discussions of AIDS prevention and care in the U.S. Petro analyzes how the AIDS crisis prompted American Christians across denominations and political persuasions to speak publicly about sexuality--especially homosexuality--and to foster a moral discourse on sex that spoke not only to personal concerns but to anxieties about the health of the nation. He reveals how the epidemic increased efforts to advance a moral agenda regarding the health benefits of abstinence and monogamy, a legacy glimpsed as much in the traction gained by abstinence education campaigns as in the more recent cultural purchase of gay marriage. The first book to detail the history of religion and the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., After the Wrath of God is essential reading for anyone concerned with the intersection of religion and public health.