World AIDS Day -- December 1

Established in 1988 by the World Health Organization, World AIDS Day is designed to draw global awareness to the effect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and to focus government attention on prevention efforts.  It takes place on December 1 of each year. The slogan for World AIDS Day 2005-2010 is "Keep the Promise" and this year's theme is "leadership." More information about AIDS and HIV: Web Sites | Books

Web Sites

World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day 2007 -- from the World AIDS Campaign

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: World AIDS Day

Minnesota Department of Health: World AIDS Day 2007

Catholic Relief Services: World AIDS Day

AIDS/HIV Information

WHO and HIV/AIDS -- from the World Health Organization

UNAIDS -- the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS -- research, publications, and statistics from the World Bank

AIDS.gov -- portal site for AIDS/HIV information from the U.S. Government

AIDS -- large collection of resources from the National Institutes of Health

Books

Reference Books: located in the Reference Section of the library

• AIDS and the New Viruses
  Minneapolis   QR 201 .A37 A36 1999
• AIDS/HIV
  Minneapolis   RC 607 .A26 A3447 2006
• AIDS Therapy
  Minneapolis   RC 606.6 .A37 2003
• Atlas of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS
  St. Paul and Minneapolis   RC 200.1 .A85 1996
  see Chapter 10, "HIV and AIDS"
• Encyclopedia of AIDS
  St. Paul  RA 644 .A25 E5276 2001
• Encyclopedia of Health & Behavior
  St. Paul  R 726.5 .E53 2004
  see articles "AIDS and HIV" and "AIDS and HIV: Prevention of HIV Infection"
• Encyclopedia of Immunology
  St. Paul  QR 180.4 .E56 1992
  see article "Human Immunodeficiency VIruses"
  Encyclopedia of World Poverty
  St. Paul and Minneapols Ref HV 12 .E54 2006
  see article "HIV/AIDS"
• Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide
  HQ 1115 .G74 2003
  look in the Six-Volume Comprehensive Index (in the back of volume 6) at the entries under "AIDS" and "HIV/AIDS"
• Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women
  St. Paul  HQ 1115 .R69 2000
  see articles "AIDS and HIV" and "AIDS and HIV: Case Study--Africa"
  [also available online on CLICnet ]
• Sexual Health: state-of-the-art treatments and research
  St. Paul and Minneapolis  HQ 21 .S47364 2007 v.4
  see "Sexually Transmitted Infections: Human Immunodeficiency Virus" pp. 251-261

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