Learn About HIV/AIDS

Here are a few learning resources to get you started.

Interactive

• Interactive HIV/AIDS Map
• Statehealthfacts.org - Data on HIV/AIDS in the United States
• NIH AIDSinfo

News

• Reuters Foundation HIV/AIDS AlertNet
• Current Google News - HIV/AIDS
• World's Anti-AIDS Donations Slow, Cutting U.S. Contribution, Too (The New York Times article)

Organizations & Websites

• UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
• Treatment Action Campaign
• Student Global AIDS Campaign
• The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria
• Global AIDS Alliance | Stop Global AIDS
• International AIDS Society
• National Council of Churches: Program Committee on Education for Mission - HIV/AIDS
• UNICEF HIV/AIDS
• Artists Against AIDS Worldwide

Conferences

• The Church and the Worldwide HIV/AIDS Epidemic
  (February 19, 2004, Madison, Wisconsin, USA)
• 15th International AIDS Conference
  (Proceedings of the conference, July 2004, Bangkok, Thailand)

Publications

• The Truth About AIDS - Free online 230 page book by Dr. Patrick Dixon
• 2004 UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic (PDF files)
• The AIDS Epidemic in 2004 (New England Journal of Medicine)
• HIV and AIDS in the Former Soviet Bloc (New England Journal of Medicine)
• HIV/AIDS in Africa (Shaping Lives - Vol. 107)
• Fighting AIDS at Home and Worldwide (Faith Today - Sep/Oct 2003)
• Too Little But Not Too Late: The Canadian Church and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (Faith Today - Sep/Oct 2003)
• AIDS and Orphans in Zambia - Community and Church: Leading the Way (SIM Shaping Lives - Vol. 107)
• Is There Hope for AIDS? (Shaping Lives - Vol. 107)
• The AIDS Pandemic (in Homosexuality and American Public Life)

Recent Books

• Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis (Donald E. Messer. 200pp. Augsburg Fortress; 2004. ISBN: 0800636414)
• The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time (Greg Behrman. 368 pp. Free Press; 2004. ISBN: 0743257553)
• Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS (Anne-Christine D'Adesky. 256pp. Verso Books; 2004. ISBN: 1844670023)
• AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization (Tony Barnett, Alan Whiteside. 432pp. Palgrave Macmillan; 2nd ed. 2003. ISBN: 140390006X)
• Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Programmes Fail (Catherine Campbell. 224pp. Indiana University Press; 2003. ISBN: 0253216354)
• Protecting the Future: HIV Prevention, Care, and Support Among Displaced and War-Affected Populations (Wendy Holmes. 240pp. Kumarian Press; 2003. ISBN: 1565491629)
• Rethinking AIDS Prevention: Learning from Successes in Developing Countries (Edward C. Green. 392pp. Praeger Publishers; 2003. ISBN: 0865693161)

“A Closer Walk” - feature-length film on the HIV/AIDS pandemic
This film, by the award-winning director Robert Bilheimer, is an excellent resource for churches, small groups, and schools interested in getting beyond the numbers to the human issues involved in the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The video features clips of most of the prominent persons working in HIV/AIDS prevention around the world, including Jonathan Mann, Peter Piot, and Bono.

Streaming Media, Photos, Movies, Videos

• Global Aids Alliance Director Paul Zeitz on World Vision Radio
• International AIDS Conference 2004 on World Vision Radio
• Faces of AIDS, on World Vision Radio
• W.H.O. Mobilizes AIDS Treatment, on World Vision Radio
• AIDS Out of Control in India, CBS 60 Minutes
• HIV/AIDS in South Africa from Global Focus Films
• A Closer Walk - feature-length film about AIDS

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