HIV, Health and Your Community - A Guide for Actionlol

This publication has been updated for 2006 and includes information on ART.

Designed for confronting HIV in places with few medical resources, this comprehensive manual is accessible to people without technical knowledge or prior training in HIV prevention or in the care of people with HIV/AIDS. Topics include: biology of HIV, prevention strategies, counseling and testing, low-cost care for people with HIV and their families, and guidelines for using ART and treating opportunistic infections.Written by Drs. Reuben Granich and Jonathan Mermin, this is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide for health workers throughout the world, notably in areas with few medical resources. It could be equally useful in a rural village in southern Africa, a major city in Thailand, or a Peace Corp worker's backpack. Designed as a manual for people confronting the HIV epidemic in their commnunities, it has been written to be easily accessible to those without medical or technical knowledge and without prior training in the prevention of HIV and the care of those with AIDS. Topics range from the biology of the virus to designing prevention programmes, and from how the disease is spread to writing grant proposals and raising funds.

For more information, contact the distributors:

The Hesperian Foundation
1919 Addison Street #304
Berkeley, California 94704 USA
Email: [email protected]

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