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A Guide to AIDS
About this book
The Guide to AIDS is succinct review of HIV/AIDS from a human-interest perspective. Chapters focus on some of the common patterns and prevention of HIV transmission and debunks misconceptions about HIV and AIDS. Brief descriptions the human immune system and epidemiology of HIV are included. The cultural component of disease, treatment and living with AIDS is central to much of this guide intended to synthesize, explain and de-mystify HIV and AIDS.
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Index
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Abortion and HIV, 73–75
Abstinence, be faithful, and condoms (ABC) approach, 53, See also Circumcision
Achilles’ heels, 98
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). See AIDS
Acquired immunodeficiency virus, 21
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), 6
Adaptive immunity, 21–22, 24–25
African Americans, 93
incarceration, 94
lack of knowledge, 93–94
late diagnosis, 94
poverty, incarceration, and HIV, 94–95
STDs and HIV, 94
African nonhuman primates, 30
AIDS, 11, 27, See also Orphans, AIDS
attacks individuals, 113
crisis, 25
culture and transmission, India, 97–98
life-long anti-HIV drugs, 39
linguistic interpretations, 111–112
personification of, 112
personified, 115
prevention, 35–36
condoms, female, 37
condoms, male, 36–37
drug-laced vaginal rings, 37
purported cures for AIDS, 51
sex with HIV-infected individuals, 38–39
and TB, 69–70
virus, origins of, 27–28
HIV-1, 30–31
lentivirus, exposure to one type of, 31
strain 1, group M, and the epidemiology of HIV, 28–30
AIDS Anschluss, 81
Alcohol(ism), 63
abuse, 90
by students, 64
and AIDS, 63–64
compromised immune capacity, 64–65
death related to, 63
and immune system, 65
toxic pairings, 63
Alleles (genetic alterations due to mutations), 14
Al-Qaeda, 77
American Civil War, 81
Andhra Pradesh Devadasi (Prohibition of Dedication) Act of 1988, 102
Angel Zapper, 50
Antibodies, 11–12
Antibody (or humoral) mediated immunity, 11–12
Anti-HIV antibodies, 11
Anti-HIV cocktails, 27
Anti-HIV drugs, life-long, 39
Antiillegal-immigration laws, 89
Antiretroviral (A...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Series Preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- SECTION I The Challenge of HIV and How to Respond to It
- SECTION II A Preventable Disease
- SECTION III What to Do and not Do
- SECTION IV Cultural Differences and AIDS Awareness
- Index