HIV and AIDS (Spinney Press, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Chapter 1 -- HIV and AIDS around the world; Chapter 2 -- HIV/AIDS prevalence and prevention in Australia; Chapter 3 -- Treatment and living with HIV/AIDS; Exploring issues -- worksheets and activities; Index
The AIDS epidemic has spread for almost 30 years. Thirty-three million people are living with HIV worldwide and 28 million have died from an AIDS-related illness since 1981, mostly in Africa. A new HIV infection is diagnosed somewhere in the world every seven seconds and someone dies from an AIDS-related illness every 11 seconds. Almost 17,000 people are living with HIV in Australia, and about 1,000 become infected each year; over 6,700 Australians have died from AIDS during the last 25 years. HIV and AIDS contains an overview of the history and prevalence of AIDS globally and in Australia