More than 900,000 Americans are now living with the HIV virus.
Although thousands of them die each year, advances in medical
treatment have allowed many people to control the infection and
survive longer. But what are their lives like? This book combines
superb photographs and compelling first-person accounts to document
the feelings and experiences of a wide range of Americans who are
carrying the HIV virus. In these pages, men and women speak
candidly about their lives, their relationships, and how they have
come to terms with the presence of this chronic and potentially
deadly disease.
What becomes clear in these interviews is that HIV is
everybody's disease -- it knows no boundaries. Yet there are some
in our society who still prefer to blame the afflicted rather than
embrace them. By allowing HIV-positive people to speak openly and
movingly about their lives, Focus on Living seeks to remove the
curtain of invisibility that still cloaks the disease and to reduce
the stigma that contributes to silence.
Dr. Paul Volberding, who has been treating patients with AIDS
since the early days of the epidemic in 1981, contributes an
introduction to the volume.
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