One single factor can have life-or-death importance for someone with HIV: food. The right diet and nutrition can boost the immune system, and most important, maintain lean body mass. This groundbreaking, compassionate, and medically sound sourcebook is a food bible for the HIV community and their caregivers. Cooking for Life contains all the information you need about one of the safest, most effective, yet underutilized, weapons for staying well.

In an effort to go beyond immune-based therapies, researchers are now considering the implications of apoptosis dysregulation during HIV-induced immunodeficiency. This work provides the first comprehensive compendium of the progress made in understanding the process of cell death related to HIV and the potential breakthroughs in treatment that offer much promise. Combining the work of more than two-dozen top researchers, this seminal volume provides clinicians and researchers with an excellent reference, while also serving as an incubator to stimulate future research. It explains the fundamental biology involved with apoptosis, explains its clinical impact in HIV, and examines the newest therapeutic approaches.

With informative discussion of safer sex and sexuality, HIV testing, treatment, public policy, and activism. A thorough analysis of AIDS issues for women.

The AIDS epidemic has afflicted Sub-Saharan Africa disproportionately, affecting every aspect of culture and society. In this intimate, longitudinal study Anthony Simpson analyzes the lives of a group of men who studied together at a Catholic mission school in Zambia and explores how the risk of HIV infection has shaped sexual practices. "Boys to Men in the Shadow of AIDS" reveals the dangerous fragility of masculinity in many men's attempts to act out the ideal of the "real man." Simpson looks at their search for meaning, and their response to both prevention and HIV testing campaigns, to suggest how to refigure masculinity and redesign gender relationships.

Introduces AIDS, explaining what it is, how it cannot be spread by casual contact, and how to act around someone who has it.

This training package has been produced for audiences unfamiliar with harm reduction for injecting drug users. It provides an introduction to important concepts in HIV prevention for injecting drug users. The package contains five training modules with slides that can be delivered separately or in one session. The modules cover the following topics: introduction to drugs, HIV and harm reduction; Outreach to injecting drug users; Drug-dependency treatment; Needle and syringe programmes and HIV prevention in prisons and closed settings. The delivery of this training package (book and a CD-Rom) should include opportunities for discussion and reflection of the information provided. Activities to facilitate this process have been included. There are two versions of this training manual. Participant Manual - Version A takes approximately three hours to deliver while Participant Manual - Version B takes around one hour.

HIV/AIDS is not just a health issue, and many Member States of WHO have adopted multisectoral approaches with other ministries and sectors taking up their share of responsibilities. However, despite this multisectoral approach, there is still a clear and essential role for the health sector to play in order to make a leading contribution in the response to HIV/AIDS.This set of training modules--including a CD-Rom--on planning for the health sector response to HIV/AIDS is intended to assist member countries of WHO to more effectively take up their responsibilities for their national health sector strategic planning. The training modules have evolved through a series of meetings with partner organizations and the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, and are based on the "WHO Planning Guide for the Health Sector Response to HIV/AIDS" and the "Manual for Designing and Facilitating Training Workshops 2010."