BOOKS:
Body Count: Fixing the Blame for the Global AIDS Catastrophe
The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS
There is No Me Without You
My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure
The First Year—HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
The HIV Drug Book
The AmfAR AIDS Handbook: The Complete Guide to Understanding HIV and AIDS
Built to Survive: A Comprehensive Guide to the Medical Use of Anabolic Steroids, Nutrition and Exercise for HIV+ men and women
The Guide to Living With HIV Infection: Developed at the Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic
Nutrition and HIV: A Model for Treatment
Healing HIV: How To Rebuild Your Immune System
AIDS and Complementary & Alternative Medicine: Current Science and Practice
Men Like Us: The GMHC Complete Guide to Gay Men's Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Well-Being
Numb Toes and Aching Soles: Coping with Peripheral Neuropathy

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The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS
by Jonathan Engel

In The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS, Jonathon Engel covers the story of AIDS from its beginnings to today. Blending together science, politics and culture, he is detailed in following the timeline of the epidemic and its tumultuous history. A celebrated medical historian, Engel lets the various players in the AIDS drama do much of the talking.

There is No Me Without You
by Melissa Fay Greene

In There is No Me Without You, two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene tells the powerful true tale of one woman working to save Ethiopian children orphaned by AIDS. For every AIDS orphan in Africa adopted by Westerners, 10,000 are left behind. Greene looks at who will raise them and how. It is also the story of families and their relationships, however they may find one another.

My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure
by Shawn Decker

Shawn Decker, who has hemophilia, was diagnosed with HIV in 1987—and was promptly expelled from his Waynesboro, Virginia, sixth-grade class. Sound familiar? Two years earlier, another positive schoolkid with hemophilia, the late Ryan White, had been dumped from his Indiana classroom. Unlike the outspoken White, Decker, now 31, dummied up about the event and his status. Decker’s mother, however, would not. She complained to the school, which eventually relented in time for Decker to start the seventh grade. Still, he navigated his entire adolescence—including his first, tentative romantic relationships and long sick leaves from school—without ever uttering the letters H-I-V. But soon after graduating from high school, he not only disclosed his status but he went national with the news, launching a sarcastic and upbeat blog about HIV called “My Pet Virus” (now on POZ.com) and contributing a regular column to POZ. Decker didn’t just say AIDS, he devised a whole new lingo for it and hemophilia, coining terms like ”positoids,” “negatoids,” “thin bloods” (those with hemophilia) and “thick bloods” (those without). He soon embarked on a career as an HIV educator, traveling the country at the side of negative HIV educator and “wife partner” Gwenn—whom he met while waiting in line to meet Ryan White’s mother. Click here to read an exclusive preview on POZ.com of his outrageous chronicle of growing up thin-blooded in a thick-blooded world.

The First Year—HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed

This book uses a unique approach—guiding readers through their first seven days following diagnosis, then the next three weeks of their first month, and finally the next eleven months of their first year - to provide answers and advice that will help everyone newly diagnosed with HIV come to terms with their condition and the lifestyle changes that accompany it. Starting with the day of diagnosis, author Brett Grodeck (HIV+ for 25 years) provides vital information about the nature of HIV, choosing the right doctors, treatment options, coping mechanisms, holistic alternatives, and much more. The book will be a supportive and educational resource for everyone who wants to take an active role in the management of their condition.

The HIV Drug Book

From Project Inform, one of the nation's leading community-based AIDS treatment information and advocacy organizations, comes a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to the drugs most used by those who are HIV-positive or suffering from AIDS. Formatted for quick reference and written in non-technical language, this handbook features an extensive master Index—from AZT to Zantac—plus information on experimental treatments.

The AmfAR AIDS Handbook: The Complete Guide to Understanding HIV and AIDS

From the leading foundation for AIDS research, here is a comprehensive guide to help readers understand the complexities of HIV/AIDS and how treatment decisions are made. The AmfAR AIDS Handbook picks up where other books on AIDS leave off. It is the book you will turn to for a greater understanding of this disease, its causes and effects, and what new treatment options are being developed.

Built to Survive: A Comprehensive Guide to the Medical Use of Anabolic Steroids, Nutrition and Exercise for HIV+ men and women

With over 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. Written by two long term AIDS treatment advocates, one of whom is living with HIV, this book his highly recommended for anyone suffering from wasting or lipodystrophy. "100% of the profits from the sale of this book will benefit non-profit HIV organizations."

The Guide to Living With HIV Infection: Developed at the Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic

In this thoroughly updated edition of the 1992 American Medical Writers' Association Book Award Winner are detailed discussions of the effectiveness, availability, and side effects of new drugs; HIV and women; new information on the transmission of HIV; prevention strategies; advice on coping with the emotional effects of the infection; and the financial and legal concerns of living with HIV.

Nutrition and HIV: A Model for Treatment

While this book does address fighting HIV from the particular vantage point of nutrition, it's meant to do and be more than that. It's written as a primer on HIV, so that people who live with HIV can increase their understanding, and hence their power to take an active role in their health care—and require that those responsible for their medical management give them the very best possible care.

Healing HIV: How To Rebuild Your Immune System

While its title is a little misleading ? HIV can't be "healed" as of yet—and the editors of this web site prefer discussing treatments that undergo rigorous clinical testing, this book by Jon D. Kaiser is considered one of the best on discussing alternative therapies for HIV. It responsibly explores how nontraditional approaches can be combined with current & experimental anti-HIV treatment regimens.

AIDS and Complementary & Alternative Medicine: Current Science and Practice

Offers a scientific review of the evidence based on years of research. Data gives the reader the power to evaluate the effectiveness of homeopathy, botanical therapies, therapeutic touch, manual medicine, nutrition, and movement.

Men Like Us: The GMHC Complete Guide to Gay Men's Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Well-Being

THE DEFINITIVE RESOURCE FOR ALL ASPECTS OF GAY MEN'S SEXUAL, PHYSICAL, AND EMOTIONAL LIVES, this indispensable, landmark book will empower you to take charge of your health, your relationships, and your life. For nearly two decades, Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), the world's largest and most respected not-for-profit AIDS service organization, has provided vital support, education, and health information to gay men in the New York City area. Now, with Men Like Us, their guidance—and the insights of hundreds of gay men across America—can help you. Practical, down-to-earth, and accessible, this authoritative health resource covers such topics as

• Finding Doctor Right
• Your sex life vs. the rest of your life
• Sexually transmitted diseases: How to protect yourself, tell if you have them, and treat them
• 5 tests and vaccines no gay man should go without
• Guidelines for gay couples: Rekindling romance in long-term relationships
• Aging well: Strategies for mind and body
• An AIDS primer: Choices for the newly infected; antiviral drugs and how they work; deciding when to start antiviral therapy; determining if your therapy is working; and what to do if it's not
• Spirituality: Waking up inside; working for the gay good
• Mental matters: Meditation; stress reduction; finding a therapist; dealing with depression, anxiety, and psychotropic medications

Filled with expert advice—from leading doctors, lawyers, therapists, and fitness instructors to "ordinary gay men" whose stories provide important voices of experience—Men Like Us opens a window onto the ways we gay men, in all our diversity, care for ourselves and each other.

Numb Toes and Aching Soles: Coping with Peripheral Neuropathy

A comprehensive guide for people who have painful and disabling peripheral neuropathy. Covered are causes, symptoms, tests and treatments—both conventional and alternative—and ways of coping day to day. The book is written from a patient's point of view with over 200 patient comments on treatments. There are also special sections for those with HIV-related neuropathies, as well as reports on experimental drugs in the pipeline.