Full Description
The history, symptoms, prevention, and current issues surrounding HIV and AIDS are discussed, along with a focus on special populations struggling with the disease.
Once thought to be a disease of homosexuals and drug abusers, AIDS has now impacted people across cultures, genders, and sexual orientations. Despite activism, new research, and treatments, many people are still dying from this disease. HIV/AIDS offers a comprehensive, one-volume resource that traces the history of the disease, and discusses prevention, along with current research and treatment. It examines issues such as care giving, health care settings, human rights, pregnancy, and insurance.
The incidence and prognosis for the disease among special populations, as well as their needs and struggles, are covered in detail. These groups include: drug and alcohol abusers, the gay and lesbian community, minority communities, pediatric patients, prisoners, senior citizens, and women. With education the key to both prevention and care of those infected, this volume is an invaluable resource for students and general readers.
Contents
Series Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Overview
1 Overview of HIV and AIDS
2 HIV/AIDS Prevalence
3 Medical Research on HIV/AIDS
4 Prevention, Education, and Testing
Part II: Issues Surrounding HIV/AIDS
5 Social Perceptions of HIV/AIDS
6 Social Action on HIV/AIDS
7 Policy Responses to HIV/AIDS
8 Human Rights and HIV/AIDS
9 Popular Culture and HIV/AIDS
10 Pediatric HIV/AIDS
11 HIV/AIDS among Adolescents and Young Adults
12 HIV/AIDS and Older Adults
13 Racial/Ethnic Inequality and HIV/AIDS
14 The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Community and HIV/AIDS
15 Drug Users and HIV/AIDS
16 Prisons and HIV/AIDS
Part III: Further Information
A HIV/AIDS Timeline: A Chronology of Significant Events
B Primary Documents
C Directory of Organizations
Glossary
Further Reading
Index
