Research Report: Hiv/Aids
Early in the epidemic, drug abuse and HIV were typically connected in people’s minds with injection drug use and needle sharing. However, this view greatly underestimates the impact that drug abuse can have on the spread of HIV and AIDS through ... [... more]
National Institute of Drug Abuse |
AIDS in Africa: How the Poor are Dying
 Across Africa, HIV/AIDS is slowly killing millions of people in the prime of their lives, weakening state structures, deepening poverty and reversing the gains in life expectancy achieved over the past century. Although many who study the dynamics of ... [... more]
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Hiv/Aids Network Clinical Trials Units (Ctu) And ...
NIAID has funded the following Clinical Trials Units (CTU) and their associated Clinical Research Sites (CRS) to implement the clinical research plans of one or more of the six NIAID-funded HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks (see listing to the ... [... more]
National Institute of Allergy |
National Women And Girls Hiv/Aids Awareness Day
Other female-specific research has helped illuminate the fact that women are affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic differently than men. Women suffer gender-specific manifestations as a result of HIV infection and respond differently to ... [... more]
National Institutes of Health |
Hiv/Aids And Men Who Have Sex With Men (Msm)
Since HIV/AIDS in MSM was first diagnosed 1981, gay and bisexual men have been leaders in dealing with the challenges of the epidemic. Gay organizations and activists, through their work, have contributed greatly to many of the guidelines for ... [... more]
Centers for Disease Control |
Hiv And Aids
When a person's T cell count gets very low, the immune system is so weak that many different diseases and infections by other germs can develop. These can be life threatening. For example, people with AIDS often develop pneumonia (say: ... [... more]
Kids Health |
Neurological Complications Of Aids Fact Sheet
AIDS patients may suffer from several different forms of neuropathy, or nerve pain, each strongly associated with a specific stage of active immunodeficiency disease. Peripheral neuropathy describes damage to the peripheral nerves, the vast ... [... more]
NINDS |
Alcohol Alert: Alcohol And Hiv/Aids
HIV is most commonly transmitted by sexual contact and the sharing of contaminated needles by injection drug users (9). By the end of 2000, an estimated 900,000 Americans were living with HIV. Approximately 40,000 new cases of active AIDS disease ... [... more]
Institute of Alcohol Abuse |
The Complete HIV/AIDS Teaching Kit with CD-Rom
A unique multi-media teaching kit for those instructing clients, staff, and students about HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS has rapidly emerged as one of the greatest threats to human health in the 21st century. In the absence of a cure, prevention remains a crucial ... [... more]
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Facing a Pandemic: The African Church and the Crisis of Aids
Facing a Pandemic traces the history and spread of the HIV/AIDS virus in Africa, its impact on African society and public policy before considering new priorities needed to combat the pandemic. The central argument is that the theological motif of the ... [... more]
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Seeking Fair Treatment: From the AIDS Epidemic to ...
The debates over the issues of health care reform and funding for AIDS research and treatment have thus far raged separately. There has been little discussion of whether health care reform would improve the lives of HIV patients, largely, many would say, ... [... more]
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28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings to life men, women, and children involved ... [... more]
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