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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese Publisher Comments Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an “urban... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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First Year: Hiv: an Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed (First Year Series) (Rev 06 Edition) by Brett Grodeck Publisher Comments This supportive resource explores the next generation of HIV/AIDS drugs and also includes new research on HIV and crystal meth, as well as new insights for the hardest hit population African Americans.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children by Melissa Fay Greene Publisher Comments Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her country's children. After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Origins of Aids (11 Edition) by P Publisher Comments It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fiscal Dimension of HIV/AIDS in Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland, and Uganda by Elizabeth Lule Publisher Comments HIV/AIDS continues to take a tremendous toll on the populations of many countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In some countries with high HIV prevalence rates, life expectancy has declined by more than a decade and in a few cases by more than two... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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AIDS: A Guide to the Law by Richard Haigh Publisher Comments A second, thoroughly revised and updated edition of the first ever guide to the British legal aspects of AIDS. Written by experienced legal professionals, many of whom are present or past advisers at the Terrence Higgins Trust in London, Britain's major... (read more) List Price $69.50 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
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AIDS Orphans Rising: What You Should Know and What You Can Do to Help Them Succeed by Mary Elizabeth Lloyd Publisher Comments Every 14 seconds a Child Headed Household is formed The death of parents from AIDS leaves behind little children, often four or five of them, who desperately want to stay together as a family. In the literature, they call them Child Headed Households... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Penitent, with Roses: An HIV+ Mother Reflects by Paula W Peterson Publisher Comments A tough and vigorous, amusing rather than melancholic blend of literary journalism and memoir.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The myth of heterosexual AIDS Book News Annotation In the 1990 edition, Fumento predicted that the AIDS epidemic had peaked the year before, but the necessary epidemiological information was not yet compiled. He has updated statistics now to support his basic message: AIDS is not on the verge of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection (Johns Hopkins Press Health Books) by Rebecca A. Et Al. Clark Publisher Comments Written by three experts with extensive experience helping people with HIV/AIDS, this trusted resource is the complete guide to better physical and emotional health for women living with HIV or AIDS. It covers the full range of health and emotional... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.70 New - Trade Paper
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HIV and AIDS Testing, Screening, and Confidentiality (Issues in Biomedical Ethics) by Rebecca Bennett Publisher Comments Testing and screening for HIV and AIDS give rise to ethical, legal, and social issues of the most controversial and delicate kind. In this book, an international team of eighteen doctors, philosophers, and lawyers present a fresh and thorough discussion... (read more) List Price $150.25 Your price: $7.48 Used - Hardcover
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Holistic Protocol for the Immune System: A Manual for HIV-ARC-AIDS & Other Opportunistic Infections by Scott J Gregory Synopsis Kill the pathogens. Detoxify the body. Increase metabolism. Rebuild the immune system. The only 4-phase, holistic protocol in print that makes it possible for one to be in control of his/her own immune system. For those who wish to follow holistic... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic by Jonny Steinberg Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his poverty-stricken village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, a son of old South West African stock, wants to show the world that if you provide decent... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Angels in Our Midst by Mary Fisher Publisher Comments For human power, no set of people are extraordinary as the caregivers who come, most of them unpaid, to help us manage our lives when life itself grows fragile and fearful. They are, collectively, an almost entirely invisible army of compassion. These... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $1.75 Used - Hardcover
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I Die, But My Memory Lives on: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project by Henning Mankell Publisher Comments The invaluable Memory Book Project gives those dying of AIDS in Africa an opportunity to record their lives in words and pictures for the children they leave behind. Excerpts from Ugandan memory books, along with Mankell's narrative, tell stories of... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Awake Project: Uniting Against the African AIDS Crisis by Jenny Eaton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-293).... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $1.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Life After AIDS by Noreen Martin Publisher Comments Today we spend the majority of our efforts on the curing of disease, while the majority of efforts should be placed on prevention. Could it be that our concept of how to achieve and maintain perfect health is fl awed? Nature so wisely placed in food the... (read more) Your price: $14.25 New - Trade Paper
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Living Well With Hiv & Aids 3RD Edition by Allen L Gifford Publisher Comments Based on the current care guidelines from the CDC and elsewhere, this book addresses the current emphasis on managing the side effects of HIV/AIDS such as lypodystrophy, redistribution of body fat, cardiac risks, and vulnerability to other ailments... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Quicksand: A True Story of HIV/AIDS in Our Lives by Anonymous Publisher Comments What is it like to be affected by HIV/AIDS? A moving first-person account offers insight — and basic facts. ONE DAY I FOUND OUT THAT SOMEONE I KNOW — MY BROTHER-IN-LAW, JAY — HAD HIV/AIDS. AT THE MOMENT I HEARD HIS DIAGNOSIS,... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Guide To Living With Hiv Infection (6TH 06 Edition) by John G. Bartlett Publisher Comments In this thoroughly updated sixth edition, the authors address the latest information about risks of transmission, viral mutations that confer drug resistance, and new, rapid HIV testing, and offer essential information for making decisions about... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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