ilość książek w kategorii: 402
The Encyclopedia of HIV and AIDS
ISBN: 9780816077236 / Angielski / Twarda / 427 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is estimated that about one million people in the United States are living with AIDS, many of them undiagnosed. Around the world, the number of people living with AIDS is placed at approximately 33 million, of which around 2.5 million are children. Although educational efforts and improved access to medication have helped stem the spread of HIV and AIDS in some regions, millions of new cases are diagnosed each year. The Encyclopedia of HIV and AIDS, Third Edition provides a comprehensive reference to all aspects of HIV and AIDS--with completely updated and reorganized material to best...
It is estimated that about one million people in the United States are living with AIDS, many of them undiagnosed. Around the world, the number of peo...
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395,33 zł |
Living Hell: The Truth about AIDS and HIV
ISBN: 9781450288576 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Living Hell" presents the uplifting and inspirational stories of some of the AIDS patients with whom author Josefina Guardia worked as a nursing assistant. She opens the door to the reality of AIDS and its victims, as well as that of the families who don't always know how to be supportive in the face of such devastation. She shares in their pain and acknowledges how alone some AIDS patients find themselves during the fight of their lives. This collection of stories recounts their battle to die with dignity-to take their last breaths surrounded by loving kindness. She discusses how some...
"Living Hell" presents the uplifting and inspirational stories of some of the AIDS patients with whom author Josefina Guardia worked as a nursing assi...
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99,33 zł |
Living Hell: The Truth about AIDS and HIV
ISBN: 9781450288552 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Living Hell" presents the uplifting and inspirational stories of some of the AIDS patients with whom author Josefina Guardia worked as a nursing assistant. She opens the door to the reality of AIDS and its victims, as well as that of the families who don't always know how to be supportive in the face of such devastation. She shares in their pain and acknowledges how alone some AIDS patients find themselves during the fight of their lives. This collection of stories recounts their battle to die with dignity-to take their last breaths surrounded by loving kindness. She discusses how some...
"Living Hell" presents the uplifting and inspirational stories of some of the AIDS patients with whom author Josefina Guardia worked as a nursing assi...
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57,86 zł |
What is Left Unsaid : Reporting the South African HIV Epidemic
ISBN: 9781920196257 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This publication is a multi-authored investigation into HIV reporting in South Africa, and combines journalism with research to present an analysis that is at once broad in its scope and focused on the important issues.
This publication is a multi-authored investigation into HIV reporting in South Africa, and combines journalism with research to present an analysis th...
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105,16 zł |
AIDS at 30: A History
ISBN: 9781597972949 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. AIDS at 30 is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasizes the medical response to the epidemic.Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and...
Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will ...
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153,25 zł |
The Confessions and Diaries of a New York Veteran of the Greenwich Village Stonewall Inn Raid of June 28,1969: Souvenirs
ISBN: 9781460948644 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Confessions and Diaries of a New York Veteran of the Stonewall Riots of June 28, 1969, is a true story which chronicles the life of one of the oldest survivors of the historic raid and riots at the Stonewall Forty-six years ago. This was the beginning of the Gay Rights Movement, and the Gay Revolution when Gays resisted Police arrests and assaults. A year later, Gay Demonstrators celebrated the First Anniversary of the riots with a Gay Pride March by, openly, walking from Greenwich Village to the Sheep Meadows in Central Park. Thereafter, the founders of the (GLF) Gay Liberation Front and...
The Confessions and Diaries of a New York Veteran of the Stonewall Riots of June 28, 1969, is a true story which chronicles the life of one of the old...
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87,06 zł |
The Fiscal Dimension of Hiv/AIDS in Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland, and Uganda
ISBN: 9780821388075 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 decades. Even in countries with HIV prevalence of around 5 percent (close to the average for sub-Saharan Africa), the epidemic can reverse gains in life expectancy and other health outcomes achieved over one or two decades. This volume highlights work conducted under the umbrella of a World Bank work program on "The Fiscal Dimension of...
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 p...
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238,56 zł |
HIV Prevention and Bisexual Realities
ISBN: 9780802099938 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is there so little HIV education at present directed towards bisexual men and women? This book offers a critical analysis of the issues in public health research and education that prevent adequate attention from being paid to bisexual realities. Addressing the implications of such limited knowledge, the authors raise important questions about the weaknesses of our current response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Through interviews with a variety of bisexual men and women, HIV Prevention and Bisexual Realities uncovers innovative, important directions to consider for more... Why is there so little HIV education at present directed towards bisexual men and women? This book offers a critical analysis of the issues in publ... |
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275,42 zł |
Built to Survive: A Comprehensive Guide to the Medical Use of Anabolic Therapies, Nutrition and Exercise for HIV+ Men and Women
ISBN: 9780983773993 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With more than 330 scientific references, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the medical use of anabolic steroids, growth hormone, supplementation, optimal nutrition, and exercise to prevent and treat the loss of lean body mass and body alterations experienced by people with HIV.
With more than 330 scientific references, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the medical use of anabolic steroids, growth hormone, supplement...
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69,45 zł |
HIV/AIDS Among Industrial & Transport Workers
ISBN: 9781469163864 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,64 zł |
Promoting Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Condom Use with Young Africans: Qualitative Findings from an Intervention Trial in Rural Tanzania
ISBN: 9780739168448 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Promotion of the low risk "ABC" behaviors--Abstinence, Being faithful, and Condom use--has had only limited success in Africa. This book draws on a large qualitative study affiliated with an adolescent intervention trial to examine how ABC promotion can be improved. It evaluates the MEMA kwa Vijana sexual health program, which was implemented in 62 primary schools and 18 health facilities in rural Tanzania, scrutinizing its teacher-led curriculum, peer education, youth-friendly health services, youth condom distribution, and community mobilization components. The book examines how...
Promotion of the low risk "ABC" behaviors--Abstinence, Being faithful, and Condom use--has had only limited success in Africa. This book draws on a la...
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679,96 zł |
New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights
ISBN: 9780415828253 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights. Interdisciplinary feminist conversations among scholar-activists can both challenge and enrich new directions in feminism and human rights. The scholarly and activist writings that comprise this collection advance both research and critical conversations about feminism and human rights by revealing the transformative potential of a feminist human rights praxis that embraces both critique and collective justice. The editors'...
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a polit...
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270,35 zł |
Innovation and Biomedicine: Ethics, Evidence and Expectation in HIV
ISBN: 9780230302679 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops a sustained analysis of the complex, virtual and topological dimensions of the expectations, ethics and evidence that surround the innovation of PrEP.
With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops ...
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191,40 zł |
HIV Prevention and Bisexual Realities
ISBN: 9780802097170 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is there so little HIV education at present directed towards bisexual men and women? This book offers a critical analysis of the issues in public health research and education that prevent adequate attention from being paid to bisexual realities. Addressing the implications of such limited knowledge, the authors raise important questions about the weaknesses of our current response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Through interviews with a variety of bisexual men and women, HIV Prevention and Bisexual Realities uncovers innovative, important directions to consider for more... Why is there so little HIV education at present directed towards bisexual men and women? This book offers a critical analysis of the issues in publ... |
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158,08 zł |
A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection
ISBN: 9781421405483 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 issues faced by people with HIV while also addressing topics of special interest to women, including gynecologic disorders, reproductive choices, contraception, and pregnancy. The world of HIV/AIDS diagnosis and therapy is changing dramatically. At-home testing is now available, people exposed to the virus may be able to get immediate... Written by three experts with extensive experience helping people with HIV/AIDS, this trusted resource is the complete guide to better physical and... |
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218,75 zł |
A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection
ISBN: 9781421405490 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 issues faced by people with HIV while also addressing topics of special interest to women, including gynecologic disorders, reproductive choices, contraception, and pregnancy. The world of HIV/AIDS diagnosis and therapy is changing dramatically. At-home testing is now available, people exposed to the virus may be able to get immediate... Written by three experts with extensive experience helping people with HIV/AIDS, this trusted resource is the complete guide to better physical and... |
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100,15 zł |
Innovation and Biomedicine: Ethics, Evidence and Expectation in HIV
ISBN: 9781349337705 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops a sustained analysis of the complex, virtual and topological dimensions of the expectations, ethics and evidence that surround the innovation of PrEP.
With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops ...
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191,40 zł |
Nutrition For HIV and Aging: Health and Immunity At 50+
ISBN: 9781494471743 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Age 50 is a turning point, where muscle, liver, immune and other cells perform less vigorously. This is the reason I have written an HIV nutrition book for people 50 and older. Aging is a subtle corrosion in mitochondria: the energy-producing units in all cells. It can also be less precise genetic control of growth and repair activities. It can also be subtle nutrient deficits that are leaving cells sluggish. Precision nutrition support can help slow and sometimes reverse these impaired metabolic functions associated with aging. Remember, medicines are reducing viral replication, not...
Age 50 is a turning point, where muscle, liver, immune and other cells perform less vigorously. This is the reason I have written an HIV nutrition boo...
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65,32 zł |
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Agencies Can Enhance Evaluation Quality, Planning, and Dissemination
ISBN: 9781492785071 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. OGAC establishes overall PEPFAR policy and program strategies and coordinates PEPFAR program activities. In addition, OGAC allocates PEPFAR resources from the Global Health and Child Survival account to PEPFAR implementing agencies, primarily CDC and USAID. The agencies execute PEPFAR program activities through agency headquarters offices and interagency teams consisting of PEPFAR implementing agency officials in the countries and regions with PEPFARfunded programs (PEPFAR country and regional teams).
OGAC establishes overall PEPFAR policy and program strategies and coordinates PEPFAR program activities. In addition, OGAC allocates PEPFAR resources ...
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62,71 zł |
No-Accounts: Dare Mighty Things
ISBN: 9781627200080 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Washington, D.C., 1985 - Peter, a gay dancer, dying of AIDS, thirsts for forgiveness for causing the death of a young man with whom he had sex. Martin, a straight college professor, grieves over the loss of his favorite student, killed by AIDS. He volunteers to act as a buddy to an AIDS patient and is assigned Peter. When they discover that Peter infected Martin's student, both are forced to rethink their life views. No-Accounts is a story of two men, one gay, one straight, who learn from one another how to become men by accepting loss, including, in the end, life itself. Author Tom Glenn has...
Washington, D.C., 1985 - Peter, a gay dancer, dying of AIDS, thirsts for forgiveness for causing the death of a young man with whom he had sex. Martin...
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82,74 zł |