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HIV Health and Your Community

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The entire book is now available for download:

• Table of Contents and Introduction
• Chapters 1, 2, and 3: What is HIV? The Symptoms of HIV infection, Who has HIV?
• Chapters 4 and 5: HIV around the world, Counseling about sexual behavior
• Chapters 6 and 7: The spread of HIV by ways other than sex, HIV testing
• Chapters 8 and 9: Counseling about HIV testing, Social and cultural factors that affect the spread of HIV
• Chapters 10 and 11: How to support and care for a person with HIV, Training HIV health workers
• Chapter 12: Starting community-based HIV projects
• Chapter 13 and Appendix: Getting resources for an HIV project, Treating advanced HIV disease - medicines for HIV, and common infections and their treatment
• Glossary, Resources, and Index

To buy the complete book, visit our online store