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- Creator
- Katherine Macfarlane, book editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Detroit : Greenhaven Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- 144 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780737738681, 0737738685
- OCLC
- ocn171614242
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-138) and index.
- ch. 1. Understanding AIDS -- 1. AIDS : an overview of the disease / Rebecca J. Frey, Teresa G. Odle -- 2. Current drug therapies for AIDS / ehealthMD -- 3. Progress on an AIDS vaccine / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases -- 4. AIDS : past, present, and future / Susan S. Hunter -- 5. AIDS in the developing world / Charlie Furniss -- ch. 2. Issues concerning AIDS -- 1. The developed world has a moral obligation to fight AIDS in the developing world / Diane Taylor -- 2. The developed world must fight AIDS to protect global security / Stephan Faris -- 3. Herpes and poverty are responsible for the AIDS epidemic in Africa / Emily Oster -- 4. Cultural traditions of sexual behavior are responsible for the AIDS epidemic in Africa / Mike Crawley -- 5. Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) will curb the African AIDS epidemic / Peter Gyves -- 6. Drug companies are responsible for a lack of AIDS treatment in the developing world / Daniel Pepper -- 7. Mandatory HIV testing in the United States will curb AIDS / Bernadine Healy -- 8. Mandatory HIV testing in the United States is too expensive / Sherry Boschert -- ch. 3. Personal narratives on AIDS -- 1. A young African woman reports on AIDS in her lifetime / Suzanne Engo -- 2. A young woman learns she is HIV-positive / Michelle Towner -- 3. An American wife and mother copes with AIDS / Nell Casey