Here is a list of Multimedia Resources to better your information on HIV/AIDS. Websites: Ten Websites: • Fact sheets: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/index.htm. Summary: This website gives other sites for information on populations/surveillance, Prevention of HIV/AIDS, CDC's Role In HIV Prevention, Risk Behaviors, Transmission and Virology. • Inspiring stories: http://www.thebody.com/index/inspire.html. Summary: This website contains inspiring stories from people with aids from all over the world sharing their stories and the effect the disease has had on their lives. • HIV in African Americans: http://www.thebody.com/african_american/aahiv.html Summary: This article wants the black community to stand up for themselves and the fight against aids. “What we need, right now, is for 20 African Americans with HIV to do a sit-in at the offices of the Black Congressional Caucus and demand that the caucus make AIDS the No. 1 issue on its agenda.†• HIV in Women: http://www.thebody.com/women/resource/index.html Summary: This article says that after 25 years the world has finally realized this disease is not only a man’s problem and also occurs in women and is the 3rd most-deadly disease for women in the United States. It’s also the leading cause of death for African-American women between the ages of 25-34. • Facts & Myths: http://www.apositivelife.com/?rotation=16314930&banner=9 0509622 Summary: This website offers a variety of easy-to-read information for people recently diagnosed with HIV, if you know someone who is HIV+, or someone who is currently going through treatment. • HIV handbook: http://www.hopkins-hivguide.org/ Summary: This site gives you other related sites about antiretroviral therapies for HIV. • Risk Reducers: http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/sexinfec tions/hiv/005.html Summary: This website gives information about how to reduce your risk of getting HIV/AIDS. It gives information about how you can get HIV, what it is, about tests you can take, and whether or not as an individual you should get tested. • HIV: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/hivaids/page3_em.htm Summary: This site gives all the details about the symptoms of having HIV/AIDS and what happens when your immune system weakens. • The Issue: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iyh-vsv/diseases-maladies/hiv-vih_e.h tml Summary: This website talks about the issue of AIDS in Canada and how it’s been 20 years since it has been diagnosed in Canada and still thousands of Canadians are being infected yearly. • Harvard Medicine: http://hms.harvard.edu/public/disease/HIV_AIDS/HIV_AIDS.html Summary: This website talks about what happens when your body becomes infected with HIV and how it weakens your immune system by destroying your CD4 lymphocytes.Three Documentaries:1. Deconstructing The Myth of AIDS: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3983706668483511310& amp;q=HIV%2FAIDS+documentaries&hl=en “Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS,†Gary Null Ph.D., challenges almost every statement ever made by the American Medical Industrial complex on the disease. 2. Time-out The Truth About HIV/AIDS and You – Movie - A honest movie appealing to younger viewers by using celebrities that they looked up to. The information is correct and the message comes across very clear. 3. Philadelphia - A gay lawyer with aids gets fired from his job because his co-workers are afraid they will contract aids from him. He hires a lawyer to help him sue the firm. 4. State of Denial – A documentary about different individuals in South Africa who are HIV positive. The film shows the lack of resources for the people, and how the president does not believe that HIV causes AIDS and is not helping. 5. NOVA: Surviving AIDS http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3352788984848327420& amp;q=AIDS&hl=en Bob Massie, a man who has been infected with AIDS since 1978, is still alive. His immune system fought off the disease without the help of drugs.Contact information for a NH state representative: • Paul Hodes: Mailing address in Washington, DC: 506 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: (202- 225-5206Mailing address in Concord, NH: 114 North Main St Second Floor Concord, NH 03301 Phone: 603-223-9814One Podcast: 1. Podcast: In this podcast, Brian Kearney, director of clinical pharmacology studies at Gilead Sciences discusses how HIV/AIDS drugs are researched and provides some technical insight as to how the disease works. Kearney talks about exciting new drugs such as microbisides and tenofovir, the most popular HIV/ AIDS drug produced by Gilead (brand name Viread). http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/005614.html
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Documentaries: •Deconstructing The Myth of AIDS: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3983706668483511310& amp;q=HIV%2FAIDS+documentaries&hl=en “Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS,†Gary Null Ph.D., challenges almost every statement ever made by the American Medical Industrial complex on the disease. •Time-out The Truth About HIV/AIDS and You – Movie - A honest movie appealing to younger viewers by using celebrities that they looked up to. The information is correct and the message comes across very clear. •Philadelphia - A gay lawyer with aids gets fired from his job because his co-workers are afraid they will contract aids from him. He hires a lawyer to help him sue the firm. •State of Denial – A documentary about different individuals in South Africa who are HIV positive. The film shows the lack of resources for the people, and how the president does not believe that HIV causes AIDS and is not helping. •NOVA: Surviving AIDS http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3352788984848327420& amp;q=AIDS&hl=en Bob Massie, a man who has been infected with AIDS since 1978, is still alive. His immune system fought off the disease without the help of drugs.
Here is a Multimedia Resource List: Five Books: • The Amfar AIDS Handbook: The Complete Guide to Understanding HIV And AIDS By: Darrell E. Ward. Summary: This book gives includes a treatment directory, free virus particles, certain opportunistic infections, and how to reduce risk of exposure "When a person learns that he or she tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the world is turned on end..." This book is a quick overview of the epidemic. http://www.amazon.com/Amfar-AIDS-Handbook-Complete-Understan ding/dp/039331636X/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-8317404-2111810?ie=UTF8& amp;s=books&qid=1178212359&sr=1-2 • Teenagers, HIV, and AIDS: Insights from Youths Living with the Virus (Sex, Love, and Psychology) By: Maureen E. Lyon , Lawrence J. D'Angelo. Summary: This book provides startling statistics regarding the epidemic of AIDS in children and adolescents in the US and crucial information about AIDS regarding health care, psychological, and social issues affecting youths who are HIV-positive and the multiple new treatment options available today.http://www.amazon.com/Teenagers-HIV-AIDS-Insights-Psyc hology/dp/0275988929/ref=sr_1_4/103-8317404-2111810?ie=UTF8& amp;s=books&qid=1178212359&sr=1-4 • HIV/AIDS in South Africa By: Salim Karim , Quarraisha Karim Summary: "THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE infected with HIV worldwide has increased exponentially from just a handful of cases in the early 1980s to about 40 million..." 'South Africa possesses the capacity to both curb the epidemic and to minimize its impact - dedicated efforts by its government and civil society are already underway. A wealth of essential evidence is available in this book, making it a valuable contribution to the effort against AIDS in South Africa.' Peter Piot. http://www.amazon.com/AIDS-South-Africa-Salim-Karim/dp/05216 16298/ref=sr_1_6/103-8317404-2111810?ie=UTF8&s=books& ;qid=1178212359&sr=1-6 • Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/AIDS By: Patti Lather, Patricia A. Lather, and Chris Smithies. Summary: This novel is women’s stories living with HIV/AIDS. http://www.amazon.com/Troubling-Angels-Women-Living-AIDS/dp/ 0813390168/ref=sr_1_13/103-8317404-2111810?ie=UTF8&s=boo ks&qid=1178212359&sr=1-13 • The AIDS Crisis: What We Can Do (Paperback) By: Deborah Dortzbach, W. Meredith Long. Summary: In darkness, even one light will make it brighter. The reality of HIV is a dark one, very brutal. This book lets the world know what we can do to lighten up this darkness and tells us what we can do. http://www.amazon.com/AIDS-Crisis-What-We-Can/dp/0830833722/ ref=sr_1_23/103-8317404-2111810?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid= 1178212359&sr=1-23