Information from: https://www.worldaidsday.org/National
Aids Trust (NAT)
It’s
World AIDS Day on Saturday, a time to reflect on how far the world has come in
the battle against the once deadly epidemic, strengthen awareness of the
history and future of AIDS prevention and inform ourselves on sexual health and
addiction as well as epidemiology and immunology.
Founded
in 1988 by the World Health Organisation, World AIDS Day is the ‘first ever
global health day’.
Each
year this day aims to raise awareness about HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
and AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), and educate the public on
protection, testing and treatment.
Despite
a decline in diagnoses, the National AIDS Trust highlights how many positive
cases are discovered late.
World
Aids Day also strongly emphasises the need to eradicate the stigma and
discrimination that those living with AIDS often face.
The
National AIDS Trust states that ‘people
living with HIV are also more likely to experience poverty, hardship and
inequalities’.
Treatment for HIV has dramatically improved since the virus was
identified in 1984. There is not a cure for HIV and AIDS, but with the correct
medication, those with HIV cannot pass it on.
Today the Guardian reported that 'The
UK has hit a significant UN target on the way to ending the HIV epidemic by
succeeding in diagnosing and effectively treating more than 90% of people with
the virus.'
Some of our key resources that raise awareness about HIV and AIDS and discuss the development of medicine and medical care are listed below:
Non-Fiction
HIV/AIDS:
A Very Short Introduction,
Alan Whiteside
Our
Kind of People: Thoughts on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Uzodinma Iweala
How
to Survive a Plague: The Story of how Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS, David France
Medicine’s
10 Greatest Discoveries, Meyer Friedman
Trust
Me, I’m a (Junior) Doctor, Max
Pemberton
This
is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay
No-Nonsense
Guide to Global Health, Shereen Usdin
Fiction
The
End of Eddy, Edouard Louis 14+
Tell the Wolves I’m Home, Carol Rifka Brunt
DVD- Fiction
Philadelphia
(15)
Dallas
Buyers Club (15)
Angels
in America (15)
DVD-
Non-Fiction
How
to Survive a Plague
Find
out about the 2018 ‘Rock the Ribbon’ campaign for World AIDS Day 2018 through
the link below.
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Miss Gibbs