Cox, Frank D.

The AIDS booklet. / Frank D. Cox - 4th ed. - Boston: McGraw Hill, c1996. - ix, 69 p.: ill.; 23cm.

Contents: What is AIDS?: Self-test -- Brief history of AIDS in America -- What is AIDS? -- The Apparent incubation period and usual course of AIDS -- What are the general symptoms? -- What are the common illness patterns associated with AIDS? -- How many people have AIDS? Where are they? Who are they?: How many people have AIDS? -- Where are the people with AIDS? -- AIDS Cases by metropolitan area, to July 1995 -- Who are the people with AIDS -- How HIV and AIDS affect women and children -- How do you get AIDS?: High-risk behaviors -- Sexual behavior -- Drug abuse -- Blood supply and transmission (the transmission of AIDS without sexual contact or intravenous drug use) -- How can you prevent AIDS?: Establishing and maintaining caring relationships -- Specific precautions caring persons can take to avoid AIDS risk -- If You are sexually active -- Drug use -- Donate to blood banks -- Cures, vaccines, and drugs -- Appendix A: The Centres for disease control's revised definition of AIDS as of January 1993 -- Appendix B: Ten points for world AIDS day 1994: AIDS and the family -- Appendix C: Cost of commonly used agents and laboratory tests for an HIV-infected adult.

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AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease) -- United States.
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