AEGIS Recommended Reading

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The Invisible People is a revealing and at times shocking look inside the United States's response to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known -- the global AIDS crisis. A true story of politics, bureaucracy, disease, internecine warfare, and negligence, it illustrates that while the pandemic constitutes a profound threat to U.S. economic and security interests, at every turn the United States has failed to act in the face of this pernicious menace.

Lucid and compellingly written, Patricia Siplon has immersed herself in the history and ongoing firestorms of how AIDS policies are influenced, fought over, and enacted in the United States. AIDS and the Policy Struggle in the United States is equally as engrossing and as revealing in its own way as And the Band Played On.

This book is a great resource for health care professionals. The data is very current, and I am able to assist clients who need prescription medications but don't have the insurance and financial resources to pay for them. As stated in the book, purchasing brand name prescription drugs at retail is now a choice, not a necessity.

An easy-to-understand guide for health workers in areas with few medical resources, such as rural Africa or Thailand. Designed as a manual for those confronting the HIV epidemic in their communities and without medical or technical knowledge or prior training in the prevention of HIV.

Jon Cohen answers the question of why the creation of an AIDS vaccine is a long time coming. He reports on the challenges and cross purposes of researchers, academics, commercial interests, politicians and the public. Cohen, who is a long time AIDS reporter, covers science and medicine for Science magazine. This book will become the platform for much of the future discussion regarding an AIDS vaccine.

What's covered? Everything from causes, symptoms, testing and treatments for peripheral neutropathy to helping you get through each day with greater ease.

This is essential reading for anyone interested in the Origin of HIV/AIDS! The River provides the reader with a stunningly comprehensive yet deeply engaging scientific, albeit controversial, history of the disease.

This is essential reading! It is an easy-to-read book that can serve as a good introduction to anyone with HIV. It is medically conservative with no outlandish claims or scare tactics. The publisher updates this book on a regular basis to keep the information current.

The guide was developed at the Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic.

Through interviews with young people and their parents, stories drawn from today's headlines, visits to classrooms and clinics, and a look back at the ways sex among children and teenagers has been viewed throughout history, Judith Levine debunks some of the dominant myths of our society. She examines and challenges widespread anxieties (pedophilia, stranger kidnapping, Internet pornography) and sacred cows (abstinence-based sex education, statutory rape laws). Levine investigates the policies and practices that affect kids' sex lives-censorship, psychology, sex and AIDS education, family, criminal, and reproductive law, and the journalism that begs for "solutions" while inciting more fear.

The AmFAR handbook is like an 'HIV Almanac.' It is updated yearly, and it has summary information on a wide variety of topics. Some (but not all) of the material in the handbook is technical.

AmFAR is the funding charity founded by Elizabeth Taylor.

 
This is a movie based on the best known history of the epidemic's early years. (1993)
NOTE: NTSC video format, useful only in North America.
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"An East/West Guide to Living Well With HIV/AIDS and Related Conditions"

Combines Western and Chinese medical methods to fight HIV, opportunistic infestions, and the side-effects of Western pharmaceuticals. The book covers traditional Chinese herbal remedies, general nutrition, Qi Gong, acupuncture, and moxibustion.

Patients and western-oriented doctors are the intended readers.

If you go to Amazon.com looking for HIV books, you will find more than a thousand titles. Because there is a lot of junk out there, here are some pointers we urge you to remember --

• If the book deals with treatment, do not trust any information published before 1998. If you see that the book was published in 1997 or before, skip to a more current title if it deals with treatment.

• You could fill boxcars with scare-books. Although the AIDS epidemic is terrifying (especially for those with HIV), we don't think that it serves any purpose to buy or read any "Chicken Little" books.

• If you are buying a gift for an HIV-positive person, avoid titles that deal with grief (e.g., the AIDS Quilt). The HIV+ is more interested in living.