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Africa AIDS Education series
for Secondary Schools
Set of 6 books 64-88 pp
[Series ISBN 1-919971-98-x]
| Exploring the immune system and the HIV virus
| Life with HIV and AIDS |
| AIDS – why Africa?
| Q&A
about sex, drugs and HIV |
| Q&A about the science of HIV and AIDS
| From awareness to action – preventing AIDS
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REVIEW:
"This material meets all policy requirements. Content is relevant, for learners in the senior phase, and based on new recent information. Concepts had been simplified and in most cases a glossary can be found at the back of the books. Series make provision for diversity. Appropriate
values are addressed. All aspects relate to HIV/AIDS. Layout is user friendly. Great design."
[Northern Cape Department of Education]
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Exploring
the immune system and the HIV virus
A detailed and easy-to-understand guide about HIV and the immune
system; provides information about the history of the virus, how the immune system of the body
responds to it, how a person gets HIV and how antiretroviral drugs work.
Mindy Stanford,
Cecile Mather (PhD)
& Dr Clive Evian
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Contents
Part 1: A new and puzzling disease appears
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Signs of a new disease
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Early knowledge of the syndrome
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Finding the cause of AIDS
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The HIV virus
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What we now know about AIDS
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What causes AIDS?
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Where HIV came from
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How HIV and AIDS has spread
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What HIV does to the body
Part 2: Our immune system and the HIV virus
- How the immune system works
- The purpose of the immune system
- What does the immune system consist of?
- How the immune system normally works
- What is the job of T-helper or CD4 cells in fighting invaders?
- Looking into viruses
- Retroviruses – doing the normal process backwards
- How HIV invades human cells
Part 3: The HIV virus in action
- The structure and life cycle of HIV
- How does HIV work inside the body?
- How does the HIV virus enter the body?
- What happens when a person gets HIV?
- Is there a cure for HIV infection and AIDS?
- Antiretroviral treatment
- Virus strains and drug resistance
- Combination therapy and finding a cure
- How antiretroviral drugs work
- Vaccines and a cure
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Life
with HIV and AIDS
Discusses HIV infection and its four stages; testing and
counselling; dealing with positive and negative test results; taking care of the body through nutrition, exercise and
antiretroviral drugs, and measuring the progression of the disease.
Lynn
Barnes
& Dr Clive Evian
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Contents
- About HIV and AIDS
- How the virus spreads
- HIV infection and HIV disease
- The first weeks of HIV infection
- The silent stage of HIV infection
- The beginning of symptomatic HIV disease
- Advanced HIV disease (AIDS)
- Testing
- The tests
- The window period
- The ELISA HIV antibody test
- Test results
- Counselling
- Dealing with a negative result
- Dealing with a positive result
- Telling other people
- Taking care of the body
- Nutrition
- A balanced diet
- Understanding the various nutrients
- Food and water safety
- Exercise and rest
- Taking care of the mind
- Taking treatment in the form of anti-HIV medicine
- Antiretroviral treatment
- When to start treatment
- Measuring the progression of the disease
- Problems with antiretroviral therapy
- Drug resistance
- Side effects
- The need for ongoing medical care, monitoring
and regular check-ups
- “Long survivors”
- Life with HIV
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AIDS
– why Africa?
Examines the origin of the HIV virus and the progression of HIV and AIDS in
Africa; how it spreads, social factors affecting it, its impact and current infection rates in Africa
and southern Africa; provides guidelines on prevention and looks at the epidemic’s future.
Mindy Stanford
& Dr Clive Evian
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Contents
- Introduction
- What is an epidemic?
- How do epidemics spread?
- What makes the HIV virus unique?
- What makes the AIDS epidemic unique?
- Where did the HIV virus come from?
- The spread of HIV across the world
- The epidemic in Africa
- Who is most at risk of getting HIV and AIDS?
- The uneven spread of HIV in Africa
- Social factors contributing to the spread of
HIV and AIDS
- Mobility
- Inequality between men and women
- Poverty, unemployment and lack of education
- Fear and shame
- The impact of HIV and AIDS
- Botswana, an example of the HIV and AIDS epidemic
- The rapid spread of HIV in South Africa
- What does the survey tell us?
- How has the epidemic spread across South Africa?
- Why are millions of people still getting infected?
- Lack of information
- Knowledge does not always lead to a change in behaviour
- Resistance to testing
- Lack of access to treatment
- Controlling the disease
- The future of the epidemic
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Questions
and answers about sex, drugs and HIV
Offers teenagers a practical guide to HIV and AIDS in the form of detailed and
easy-to-understand questions and answers. Topics dealt with are the relationship between sex,
drugs and HIV; the risk factor; HIV testing; and ways to prevent HIV and AIDS.
Seth C Kalichman
(PhD)
& Dr Clive Evian
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Contents
- Sex, drugs and AIDS – how does a person get HIV?
- Sexual contact
- Oral sex
- Kissing
- Anal intercourse
- Other aspects of sex
- Sharing needles
- The risk factor
- People at risk, risky places and risky situations
- HIV testing
- The HIV test
- When to get tested
- The testing experience
- HIV test results
- Privacy of HIV testing
- Deciding to get tested
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Questions
and answers about the science of HIV and AIDS
Provides information about HIV infection and how it causes AIDS; discusses
pregnancy and childbirth, and HIV in infants, children and teenagers; answers questions
about how one gets HIV and offers guidance on how to care for people with AIDS.
Seth C Kalichman (PhD)
& Dr Clive Evian
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Contents
- Introduction
- HIV – the virus that causes AIDS
- What is HIV?
- How does HIV infection occur?
- HIV infection and how it causes AIDS
- The first stages
- The early, asymptomatic or silent stage – having HIV
but feeling fine
- Symptoms in the HIV disease stage
- AIDS
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- HIV in infants, children and teenagers
- Can I get AIDS from ...?
- Blood transfusions and organ transplants
- Health care workers
- Risks at home, at school and at work
- Human bites
- Insects and animals
- When HIV disease becomes AIDS
- Help for helpers
- Staying healthy with HIV infection
- Rights of people with HIV and AIDS
- Treatments for HIV and AIDS
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From
awareness to action – preventing AIDS
Explains how the HIV virus spreads and what safer sex is; then discusses why
young people should abstain or think carefully about sex; and gives information about
high-risk behaviour and how to avoid it.
Terry-Ann
Selikow, Lynn Barnes
& Dr Clive Evian
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Contents
- Introduction
- Knowing the facts
- What are HIV and AIDS?
- Know the facts and act accordingly
- It can happen to you
- How the virus usually spreads from one person to another
- Sexual intercourse
- Sexually transmitted infections open the door to HIV
- Oral sex
- Anal sex
- Other ways the virus spreads
- Mother-To-Child Transmission (MTCT)
- Spreading HIV via exchange of blood
- How HIV is not spread
- Abstinence
- Alternatives to penetrative sex
- Reducing the risks
- How to use a condom
- Dagga, drugs and alcohol
- What are my chances of getting HIV?
- What to do if you think you have been exposed to HIV
- Making informed decisions
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