AIDS Handbook: A Complete Guide to Education and Awareness

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This unique handbook compiles, consolidates & simplifies an array of AIDS-related literature, along with several other of today's most vital facts about the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) & Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The result is a thorough overview, plus solid timely recommendations. The handbook is a resource for AIDS facts. Unlike other handbooks, informative black & white illustrations, charts, tables, diagrams & lists supplement the text & increase its readability. Outlining the types of HIV tests, it tells how & where to seek testing. It speaks to every age group pointing up facts & statistics on the full range of groups, from infants to adults. It lists local & national AIDS hotlines for each state in the U.S., support organizations & services. Because of drug-related infection, it lists drug & alcohol treatment & prevention programs for each state. To give the reader a more in-depth & personal perspective, the handbook includes two interviews with AIDS patients, that will also dramatize the fact that AIDS affects people of all nationalities; men, women & children. The AIDS Handbook contains an extensive bibliography & a useful glossary of AIDS-related terms. Written in a light easy-to-understand style, this handbook offers the essential information required for education & awareness on HIV/AIDS. To order: Designbase Publishing, 122 E. Main Street, Durham, NC 27701 - $16.95 - (919) 683-9500, (ISBN 0-9624040-0-4).