Taking a sexual history: clinical strategies for assessing HIV risk
These unrehearsed vignettes show a variety of clinicians interviewing actual patients about their sexual and drug-using histories. While invaluable for evaluating HIV risk, these approaches will also enable clinicians to assess risks for other sexua...
Subject: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control--United States
The Modern Plague: Identifying the Virus and Its Effects
--Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The virus, which multiplies rapidly in the body, attaches itself to the T4 cell, the cell that regulates the body's defense system, and
Subject: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Transcript: immunodeficiency virus. Number one-- virus. That's what it is, not a bacterium. Number two-- it causes immuno-deficiency. That means a weakness of the immune system
The Modern Plague: Protecting Yourself, Your Community Against HIV
To lessen the devastating impact HIV has on people's lives, healthcare professionals advise that you maintain a monogamous relationship with an HIV negative person, abstain from sexual intercourse, or use a condom 100% of the time. Do not use needle...
Subject: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
The Modern Plague: Rumblings, New Disease Rumored
The year was 1981. Reports of a strange disease that was attacking seemingly healthy young men began to spread through the medical community. The most important thing initially was to construct a case definition for what is now called AIDS. The comb...
Subject: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
The Modern Plague: Search for an HIV Vaccine
The development of a vaccine against HIV is proving to be a daunting task. Alexandra Levine talks of her work with Jonas Salk on what was to be his last major project, looking for either a way to kill the virus or use it as a therapeutic vaccine dur...
Subject: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
The Modern Plague: Fear Among Healthcare Providers; Public Complacency
At the beginning of the epidemic, fear was the bottom line, particularly among healthcare providers. Some healthcare providers refused to take care of these patients. Initially the public was complacent, lulled by the fact that many people considere...
Subject: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in Malawi
Malawi is a small country in South East Africa that has reached a turning point — it will either sink into unknown depths of despair and poverty or it must grow and change with AIDS as a catalyst. Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in Malawi explores the...
Subject: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology -- Malawi
The Modern Plague: Emerging Treatment Protocols for HIV
Prior to the development of new drugs, a person who developed full-blown AIDS had 1 to 2 years to live. In 1987 the very first anti-HIV drug was developed. Of the ninety patients who received the drug, Steve Pieters was the only one to experience po...
Subject: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
AIDS in Africa
With millions dead of AIDS and millions more infected with HIV, Africa is in danger of becoming little more than a graveyard. In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent Dave Marash deliver three successive reports on the AIDS epid...
Subject: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology -- Zimbabwe
Sex and Sexuality: HIV/AIDS
immunodeficiency virus or "HIV" and "AIDS." Although many new and powerful drugs have proved to be the most effective medical response thus far, there still is no
Subject: human immunodeficiency virus