AIDS and HIV: General Resources

Today, HIV disease is managed like other types of chronic illness. It's no longer a death sentence. But since the main focus of Growth House is on palliative care, we provide the full text of the Workgroup on Palliative and End-of-Life Care in HIV/AIDS Recommendations to the Field.

There is a vast amount of information about AIDS and HIV disease on the internet. This page gives our choices for the cream of the crop covering a wide range of issues. We also offer a separate page devoted to AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region. Because AIDS is a life-threatening illness, additional relevant topics at Growth House include hospice and home care, palliative care, death with dignity, and grief and bereavement. You can do additional research on specific conditions using health directories.

• Find an HIV Test Site (CDC national site)

	Recovering from the Loss of a Loved One to AIDS By Katherine Fair Donnelly. AIDS affects our entire society, and we hear from a wide range of people in grief. The author uses first-person narratives to explore the diversity of losses, emotions, and coping strategies. In addition to spouses and lovers, we meet a grandmother who lost three grandchildren to AIDS, and heterosexual women mourning best friends who were gay men. These personal sharings are combined with professional views to suggest approaches to grief that may work for you. This book will be of particular use to survivors living with disenfranchised grief.
	Multiple AIDS-Related Loss By David Nord. Through the personal stories of four very different survivors, the book helps explain why multiple AIDS-related loss has uniquely devastating features. Beyond explaining the problem of grief due to multiple loss, the book also offers suggestions on ways to heal from the impact of AIDS.
	Women and AIDS A compilation of the best books we can find on the subject of women and HIV disease. Selections range from medical specialty books to feminist political interpretations of gender issues in the epidemic.
	AIDS: What Teens Need To Know By Barbara Christie-Dever. An informative and potentially life-saving book for high school students about HIV and AIDS using an easy-to-understand question and answer format. It includes essential facts about the risks and dangers of infection, extended activities to develop skills in saying "no" and to increase awareness, and biography sketches of Ryan White, Magic Johnson and others. Additional titles in this series are targeted at pre-teens in age-appropriate ways.