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The History, Testimony, Education, Outcomes and Strengths of people living with HIV/AIDS & STD's. 160 pages; price $16.95 quality trade paperback contains black and white illustrations and diagrams; ISBN 978-0-9817268-6-1 Educational, Self Help, Biography. Focusing on creating awareness in providing developmental materials. Chapters consist of:· Chapters consist of:· Testimony Myself · HIV/AIDS Nutrition · Snapshots of HIV/AIDS · What You Don't Know Can Hurt You! (STD's and You) (new updates)· HIV/AIDS & STD's Prevention (new chapter) · Achieving Your Goals & Learning to Teach Others · Points of Reference & Disclaimer For additional information visit Venus Perez at http://www.venusperez.com ... Read more

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Venus is a HERO!
A Must for any one who cares about the pandemic we call HIV/AIDs - Whether stateside or abroad, this true story of courage and of hope is a tremendous tool for uplifting yourself, if like me you too are a person living with HIV/AIDs, or for those affected by it via a friend, family member or partner. This Ordinary Miracle shares the ups, the downs and the candid realities so often overlooked in today's often over simplified picture of what HIV/AIDs is all about. Venus is a HERO! We are most happy to recommend this book to any and all we encounter in our work at "James' House" - [...]

One of the most informative books about prevention and education about HIV/AIDS written by a courageous woman.
I am a physician in the HIV/AIDS field and I found this book to not only be informative but very inspiring. It relates to the stories I have heard from many of the HIV/AIDS woman I have come in contact with. This book emphasises prevention and the steps one must take to protect themselves. It is a must reading for all persons that have been newly diagnosed, and a must reading for everyone that may in their lifetime have unprotected sex or use IV drugs. Cudos to Venus for having the courage to write this book reveling her life story.

Great Book For Teens
Venus' book makes this horrible crisis real to everybody.By telling her story first, she draws you in and allows you to realize this could have been you or somebody you know.You then view the rest of the book through her eyes.The facts become more real and more compelling.In her book, she is authentic and that makes all of the difference.Anyone can write a fact based book.But when those facts come from a 20 plus year survivor of HIV/AIDS, you are going to listen!Thank you for writing this Venus. ... Read more

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Presents the latest facts about the virus that causes AIDS, while also providing insight on the emotional effects of the disease. ... Read more

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Perhaps you have just heard the shocking news that you have HIV, sending your mind and your life into crisis. You are searching for someone to tell you what to do next and how to be okay. Help has arrived. Written by someone living with HIV, this first-of-its-kind book is meant to gently fill your head, heart and life with the firsthand wisdom and guidance needed to move from crisis to acceptance to living in peace with HIV.This book leads you on a journey through four stages designed to end your crisis, build a solid foundation for your future, manage HIV within your life and achieve the balance that leads to peace. Meaningful insight and advice is provided for each issue or decision that you might now face, including telling family and friends your news, learning how to forgive yourself, reducing the risk of re-infection or infecting others and managing your HIV treatment.Each chapter includes examples of publications and websites available as resources to! support your journey. In addition, a workspace page is provided at the end of each chapter for you to record any immediate thoughts or ideas to use later. The appendix lists one state-level HIV/AIDS organization contact for each state, along with that state's AIDS hotline.Even if you have been living with HIV for some time, you will likely experience healing from reading this book, especially if you have never reached a place of peace about having HIV. This book may also provide your family, friends or partner with valuable insight into what you are going through regarding your HIV diagnosis, whether it was recent or not. ... Read more

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University of California, Los Angeles. Provides basic information on all aspects of HIV/AIDS. For physicians, nurses and allied health care workers. 23 U.S. contributors. Softcover. DNLM: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. ... Read more

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Guide to understanding AIDS and HIV infection. For the lay level counselor working with infected individuals, their partners, and their families. DNLM: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome complications.Amazon.com Review
You hope, of course, to never need such a reference, but withmillions of people testing positive, it's crucial to have acomprehensive source of reliable information. Whether you are ill,know someone who's infected or just want to stay informed, Powell'sguide is a valuable summation of the nature of the disease, itstransmission, testing, treatments and available resources. Especiallyfor a topic so laden with fear and prejudice, it's essential to havesuch an intelligent, lucid text. ... Read more

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An educational and interesting piece
This book really helped me with my report. I learned so much that i did not know about AIDS and HIV releated diseases. Thanks to Josh and Amy i got an A! ... Read more

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This is the most up-to-date and clearly written book on HIV therapy in existence.Written for the layperson and medical provider, this is a guide to aggressive medical therapy for HIV infection.It covers the HIV world epidemic, HIV viral structure, the course of the disease without treatment, all of the 11 approved medicines and approximately 20 additional in research.The core of the book describes the reasoning behind triple therapy including protease inhibitors and how to initiate this therapy in a simple manner.Other chapters cover treating resistant HIV, preventing infections, reversing weight loss, the national economics of HIV therapy, and the search for a cure.Placing AIDS & HIV in Remission is a milestone in the field of HIV therapy that no one with any interest in HIV should be without. ... Read more

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Use the power of Positive Nutrition to improve health and feel better at any stage of HIV infection or AIDS Written by two Harvard Medical School doctors, this breakthrough book will show you how to maintain weight and enjoy the highest quality of life possible by radically changing the way you think about food—without radically changing your lifestyle. By following the three Principles of Positive Nutrition, you don’t have to accept weight loss and nausea as inevitable side effects of the infection and medications. This positive, proactive approach will help you stay well-nourished, active, and resistant to further health problems. Positive Nutrition for HIV Infection and AIDS shows you how to take charge of your nutritional care at any stage of HIV infection or AIDS. It provides sensible, easy meal plans, advice on getting through days when you don’t feel well, and tips on how to talk to your doctor about nutrition. This valuable guide also includes a comprehensive listing of the most effective vitamin and mineral supplements, delicious, culturally diverse recipes, and tips on avoiding bogus nutrition therapies. "A clear-thinking, scientific, and truly helpful contribution." —Jerome Groopman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology "A highly informative text for … preparing a personal management plan. It combines education with rational and practical guidelines for action." —Donald P. Kotler, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director of GI Immunology, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York City ... Read more

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Here's up-to-date coverage that reveals the truth behind HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis, and clearly explains the steps that salon professionals should take to control the spread of infectious diseases. Features:-The truth about myths to eliminate fears caused by misinformation so you can dealwith your clients' concerns about infectious diseases-Salon sanitation and disinfection procedures to protect you and your clients-A clear explanation of how the HIV virus is transmitted and ways it can not be transmitted, eliminating confusion and uncertainty ... Read more

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From the leading foundation for AIDS research, acomprehensive guide to help readers understand the complexities ofHIV/AIDS and provide the latest information on combination therapy. TheAmFAR AIDS Handbook picks up where other books on AIDS leave off. It isthe book you will turn to for a greater understanding of this disease,its causes and effects, and what new treatment options are beingdeveloped. How is HIV transmitted? When should antiviral treatment begin?Should treatment ever be stopped? How do protease inhibitors work? Howdoes the disease differ in men, women, and children? This guideincorporates the latest research findings-including those on combinationdrug therapy-and answers all your questions in language comprehensible tononscientists. AmFAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research) is theleading nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of laboratory andclinical research on AIDS, AIDS prevention, and advocacy for soundAIDS-related public policy. It has given out over $140 million to morethan 1700 research teams. Elizabeth Taylor is the founding nationalchairman and Dr. Mathilde Krim is the founding co-chair and chairman ofthe board. ... Read more

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Good Introductory Book!
This is a good book to read if you are unfamiliar and want a "quick" overview of the epidemic. It's a little outdated, there is a need to write a new one with more up to date information, so this would only be an introduction. I would recommend reading up to date research articles to get the full scope of what is happening and demographics, but all in all I would recommend this book to everyone.

Another piece of 'AID$' industry nonsense.
After 20 years of hysteria, alarmism, misplaced recrimination and guilt, AIDS fatigue has beaten the newspaper-reading mind into a kind of blank.

Citizens can't be faulted for not knowing how exactly to respond to last week's eruption of scandal from an NIH whistle-blower named Jonathan Fishbein, an AIDS researcher charged with overseeing clinical trials here and abroad.

A reverberating language of bureaucracy and euphemism surrounds AIDS stories, making it impossible to know what has actually transpired. When people die from AIDS drugs, for instance, the word "death" is studiously avoided.

I have seen medical articles documenting the fact that more people now die of toxicities from AIDS drugs than from the vanishingly opaque syndrome we once called AIDS. Death was referred to as a "grade four event," thus placing it eerily within the acceptable parameters of predictable phenomena in AIDS research--not as a failure, a crisis or even something to lame

Very Informative
I purchased this book for a report that I was doing on AZT, an AIDS/HIV drug. Not only is this an informative book, it is one of the most blunt books I have ever read. If you need information for a report, or just because you want to learn more, this is the book for you.

Good Reference, Hard Read
This book is great to have on your shelf, but a tough one to keep by your bed. At times it gets rather technical, and doesn't explain the practical side of things. It is a wonderful reference, you can probably find anything you'd like (at least, dated year 2000). It is not a book for people who know very little about AIDS, I'd suggest getting familiar with it all first.

Struggling for Answers?
This is a great book for both people living with AIDS and people struggling to understand the disease. ... Read more

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New drugs and drug combinations have turned HIV/AIDS into a long-term illness rather than a death sentence. Practical advice on mental adjustments and physical vigilance is outlined here. ... Read more

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LIVE well?They should rethink the title for this book
Most of the info in this book is gloom and doom.It mostly details what you could DIE of.Although there is no cure, most of the fatal OIs in this book are pretty much a thing of the past.Avoid this book. ... Read more

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There are many well-established scientific reasons that the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is highly doubtful. In Science Sold Out, Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system. It is rare that a researcher who has received funding to study HIV ever expresses any doubt in the paradigm, and an even rarer event still when she abandons the field altogether. This book focuses on the changing definition of AIDS and the flaws in all HIV testing. In a much broader sense, it explains how the current, government-based structure of scientific research has corrupted science as the search for truth. It offers not only scientific reasons for HIV/AIDS being untenable, but also sociological explanations as to how the theory was accepted by the media and the world so quickly. In particular, this book offers a scathing criticism of the outrageous discriminatory measures that have been leveled at HIV-positives from the inception. ... Read more

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An unfortunate publication
It angers and saddens me that this slim volume of distortions and inaccuracies may mislead readers who do no further research into the topic of HIV and AIDS. Please be wary of this author, and consult multiple sources of information on this subject. If you must read this misinformation-ridden book, do so with the perspective that you are reading a prime example of quasi-research whose author cherry-picks dated studies (that have since been refuted or shown to be erroneous) to suit her ideology. Most of her research is out of date. Why are so many of the studies Culshaw relies on from the 1980s and 1990s? New findings in the field of HIV research are published at a rather astonishing rate, yet Culshaw refuses to address even relatively new discoveries in the field, and seemingly excuses herself from this task by claiming that the scientific tradition itself has become too shoddy for her to bother with. The University of Texas at Tyler should be ashamed to harbor Culshaw and her dangerously inaccurate views, views that may very well put real lives in jeopardy.

Scientific truth speaks to dogma
This is a story about a math grad student who did her thesis on AIDS/HIV and discovered that there is no science behind the entire paradigm! She now is a math prof at Austin, but she has quit taking money to study HIV/AIDS in disgust.

Too much emotion. Too few facts.
This book is very disturbing. Its disturbing there are people who will read this book and make decisions about their health because of it. Living with HIV and even AIDS is reality for lots of people today, and this kind of pseudo-science doesn't make it any easier for them. Alot of people also don't have a science education to know they are being deceived by HIV deniers who "sound" like scientists.
If you want good information you go to an expert. This author is not an expert. The "detailed scientific jargon" another reviewer talks about in this book isn't even used right by the author. She is a mathematician. She is not a biologist or a doctor. She substitutes strong emotions and shrill language about this subject for good reasoning and facts. I am a scientist myself and I don't know how she gets so much wrong in such a small book.
Please if you want accurate information about HIV look somewhere else. An amateur who knows just enough to screw up the facts royally is not a reliable source.

Science Sell Out
This book scares me. I read this book for a class and I will have to say that it has the potential to be quite dangerous to those who are in some way affected by HIV/AIDS and are seeking some sort of hope. With the use of mathematical figures and detailed scientific jargon, the author has created what appears to be a valid proposition--that contains half an argument. In an attempt to break the connection between HIV and AIDS, Culshaw has done little more than discuss the weaknesses of the HIV/AIDS correlation. However, it must be pointed out that Culshaw herself does say that there is no current understanding of AIDS which leads me to believe that her theory is based on what she does not understand. Overall, the book is skeptical at best and relies too heavily on repetitious points, mathematical figures, and scientific jargon that does little more than confuse and possibly impress readers. After reading the book I was left with a sense of discontent because I felt that the only thing she truly proved was that there is still a lot of research left to be done in the fields of HIV and AIDS--which should come to a shock to no one. I believe that the book is a bit reckless in its presentation of "fact" and "fiction," especially coming from a member of the scientific community. I would not recommend this book, but if you read it please approach it with caution.

Essential reading
A great follow up to Peter Duesbergs "Inventing The Aids Virus" or as an eye opener for the uninitiated. This book is well researched and easy to read with some great insights and facts to show how ridiculous the HIV/AIDS hypothesis really is. She goes on to say that the HIV/AIDS juggernaut has become so big and powerful that there may be no way to stop it. I sincerely hope she is wrong about that, but it will not be easy.
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Read it!
Another book on AIDS / HIV? Yes, but this book is a masterful blend of factual reality and deeply felt passion. The stories are real, the people dying and the challenge unavoidable. The authors have captured the pain in their telling of these stories and at the same time, shown us some light in the tunnel. Can this tide of death turned? Yes it can. They help us see how. ... Read more

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Millions of children worldwide have been orphaned or made vulnerable by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, while there has been significant action in the last few years by governments, international organizations, religious bodies, and nongovernmental organizations, the vast majority of children made vulnerable by AIDS have not benefited from any assistance beyond their own extended family and community. This volume's insightful perspectives from experienced professionals address these children's needs in education, community mobilization and capacity building, economic strengthening at household and community levels, psychosocial support, and civil rights. ... Read more

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This guide informs patients on healthy eating by outlining sound eating strategies for feeling and looking better and staying healthier longer by providing guidance in symptom management and nutrition support. This publication provides sources of vitamins and minerals especially important to the immune system as well as potential nutrition interactions with anti-HIV medications. Additional tips on keeping up muscle mass and exercising are included. ... Read more