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The Guide to Living With HIV Infection: Developed at the Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic (Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
by  John G., Md. Bartlett, Ann K. Finkbeiner, Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic

   


 
Book Info:
From Book News, Inc.
Guide for all people affected by the diagnosis of HIV infection, ARC, or AIDS (i.e. patients, caregivers, families, friends) covers the parts of people's lives that HIV infection affects: their physical health, their emotional health and social difficulties, and their financial and legal problems. Includes a 30-page glossary of terms. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


Book Description:
This book remains the most complete resource of its kind for people with HIV and AIDS and for their families and friends. The fourth edition explains how to help ensure the effectiveness of the new treatments and, for those for whom the treatments don't work, how to remain well as long as possible. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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Dying to Care: Work, Stress and Burnout in HIV/AIDS Professionals (Social Aspects of AIDS)
by David Miller

   


 
Book Description:
Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of day care and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death.


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Hiv/Aids: Loss, Grief, Challenge And Hope
 by Mary O'Donnell

 

Book description:
 This guide for professionals who are working in the complex area of HIV/AIDS provides practical guidance and solutions. Each chapter describes specific needs and solutions based on the options available and personal choice.

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Children and the HIV/AIDS Crisis: Youth Who Are Infected & Affected
 by  Carrie McVicker
 

    

Book Description:
 Young people have the highest rate of new HIV infections worldwide, and millions of children are orphaned and abandoned because their parents and other family members have died of AIDS. This easy-to-read booklet provides a valuable overview of a subject we dare not ignore.

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Health Workers and Aids: Research, Intervention and Current Issues in Burnout and Response
 by Lydia Bennett, David Miller, Michael Ross
 


Book Description:
 Major international projects are discussed together with measurement and evaluation issues in the area of stress, burnout and AIDS impact. Aspects of organisational and management responses to HIV/AIDS can enable researchers and health personnel to set up and evaluate their own projects.
This is the first book to deal with the multitude of issues associated with HIV disease and health workers, including volunteers � although there is a growing literature which documents the positive and negative aspects of the area. This comprehensive review, including research, evaluation and education at both personal and systems levels, will remedy the deficit. Issues covered include Asia and general care in a number of regions around the world.

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HIV/AIDS at Year 2000: A Sourcebook for Social Workers
 by  Vincent J. Lynch
 


Book description:
 The author proposes that, "In order to practice competently, all social workers need to have a grounding in HIV issues so they can serve those populations at risk." This book provides that grounding. Offering cutting-edge information about HIV/AIDS, it shows how the disease affects communities, and how social workers work within those communities and with those affected with HIV/AIDS. It brings together the latest medical, psychosocial, and values and ethics issues around HIV, through vignettes that illustrate the problems and challenges social workers face. Dr. Lynch and a number of contributors are recognized national leaders in HIV/AIDS in social work. The book begins by discussing the key medical, psychosocial, and ethical contexts within which social work with HIV/AIDS clients takes place, then looks at who in the U.S. today is most impacted by the disease. Taking an ecosystem perspective, it examines in particular how the epidemic has ravaged poor communities and communities of color. Finally, the various roles of the social worker are presented, including prevention, social advocacy and policy issues, treatment, mental health issues, bereavement, and spirituality. For social workers, related professionals, and community leaders working with populations at risk.

 

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The aWAKE Project : Uniting against the African AIDS Crisis
 by Jenny Eaton, Kate Etue, Kate Etrue
 


Book Description:
Five AIDS victims die every minute. What can you do to help?

�Today, this very day, 5,500 Africans will die of AIDS. If this isn�t emergency, what is?� �Bono (U2)

The aWAKE Project is a collection of stories and essays geared toward educating and mobilizing Americans to help with the AIDS crisis in Africa. Action is needed for a continent on which five people die every minute from the deadly AIDS virus. aWAKE stands for: AIDS�Working toward Awareness, Knowledge and Engagement. Compiled of articles written by significant speakers on the AIDS issue, ranging from Nelson Mandela to Kevin Max, The aWAKE Project provides poignant stories and compelling statistics, encouraging the reader to care and even take action to battle this horrific crisis.

A significant portion of the proceeds from The aWAKE Project will be donated to Jubilee 2000 and World Vision's Hope Iniative for Africa.

Contributors include: Johanna McGreary, Nelson Mandela, Senator Bill Frist, Mary Graham, Desmond Tutu, Margaret Becker, Jimmy Carter, Jeffrey Sachs, Kevin Max, Jesse Helms, Kofi Annan, Out of Eden, Dikembe Mutombo, Luci Swindoll, Michael Tait, Charlie Peacock, President Olusegun Obsanjo of Nigeria, Bono, Nadine Gordimer, President George W. Bush, Danny Glover, Ambassador Rachel Gbenyon-Diggs, Mark Schoofs, Greg Barz, Paul O'Neill, Noelina Nakumisa, World Bank Report, and others.
"As featured on the official U2 website."

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Children of AIDS : Africa's Orphan Crisis
 by  Emma Guest
 


Book Description:
FThis new, fully updated edition of Emma Guest's acclaimed book explores how the AIDs crisis has devastated the world's poorest continent, and shows how families, charities and governments are responding to the next wave of the crisis – millions of orphans.
Based on extensive interviews, Guest lets people tell their own stories. The result is a moving and disturbing account of the experiences of orphans, street children, grandparents, aunts, foster parents, charity and social workers and foreign donors across South Africa, Zambia and Uganda.

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Nursing Adolescents: Research and Psychological Perspectives
 by  Jayne Taylor, Dave Muller
 


Book Description:
Suffolk College, Ipswich, U.K. Reference for nurses on the special nursing needs of adolescents in health and illness. Discusses health promotion, sex education, AIDS, HIV, substance abuse as well as hospitalization.

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