The AIDS Trilogy is a compilation of three plays by Walter de Jesus Fitzwater. The first, Between Me and My Virus, takes place during the late part of 1988. We see the fears and confusion of an individual who discovers that he is infected with the HIV virus. Later, during a support group he identifies with the struggles and confrontations of others who are infected. Finally, we see him take a closer look at himself and his nemesis and how to overcome the uncertainties within him. In the second, The Cure, the year is 2046. A couple of rebel students from the university, Shandra and Antonio have stolen a valuable piece of experimental equipment. With this apparatus, the resuscitator, they bring back to life, Roger who in the year 1994 was a hero. Because the peculiar nature of this man's blood the scientists discovered the cure for AIDS. The students also need this hero's unique bloods idiosyncrasy to help end their dilemma but malevolent forces kidnap Roger and keep them from achieving their goal. He is recaptured by the "good" doctor and there is an opportunity for this resurrected man to help society once again. Later Roger finds refuge with the elders of the town and to his surprise, they supply the answer that allows him to understand why he had to return to live again and embark on a new course in his new life. Finally, in the third play, Embargo, two brothers, Carlos and Lorenzo whose parents were born in Cuba are living in Miami, Florida. Their parents brought them up to grow in a land known as the "land of opportunity." The boys grew up together with every amenity their parents could afford: good schools, football games, even a scholarship to the university, yet today their political opinion is as different as freedom is from oppression. The play takes place after Elian Gonzalez has been sent back to Cuba, Nov. 2000. Carlos believes the embargo should be maintained and enforced and Lorenzo feels it should be lifted and a new relationships between the US and Cuba can be born from this.

Through Positive Eyes features photographs and stories from ten cities around the world by 130 HIV-positive "artivists," many using cameras for the first time. Originated as part of the global MAKE ART/STOP AIDS initiative, this project paints a vivid picture of the AIDS epidemic--after its initial outbreak, and as treatment becomes more widely available. It testifies to the resilient spirit of those facing the challenges of HIV.

Groundbreaking narrative nonfiction for teens that tells the story of the AIDS crisis in America. Thirty-five years ago, it was a modern-day, mysterious plague. Its earliest victims were mostly gay men, some of the most marginalized people in the country; at its peak in America, it killed tens of thousands of people. The losses were staggering, the science frightening, and the government's inaction unforgivable. The AIDS Crisis fundamentally changed the fabric of the United States. Viral presents the history of the AIDS crisis through the lens of the brave victims and activists who demanded action and literally fought for their lives. This compassionate but unflinching text explores everything from the disease's origins and how it spread to the activism it inspired and how the world confronts HIV and AIDS today.

In this first book to bring both establishment and dissenting views of the AIDS crisis into one volume, Gary Null unravels the halftruths that many argue have marred the study of this disease from the start. In clear, jargon-free prose, the book offers an unbiased, unflinching discussion of all sides of each issue. AIDS: A Second Opinion argues that the AIDS drama has exposed problematic issues having to do with the functioning of U.S. medical institutions. Null explores a new type of health care, grounded in patients' own choices and dispositions, that poses a challenge to the top-down, expert-controlled medical systems favored by the establishment. Drawing from Null's many years of study of alternative, traditional, and orthodox medicine as well as from interviews with many long-term survivors, the book dissects the claims of the AZT and drug-cocktail approach to treating AIDS and offers a trilogy of treatment strategies based on wide views of how to enhance the immune system and improve overall functioning.

Few people realize that the familiar HIV/AIDS global statistics are actually estimates. For example, UNAIDS estimated that the Republic of South Africa had 140,000 HIV/AIDS deaths in 1997. However, after tabulating all deaths for 1997, the Republic of South Africa attributed only 6,635 deaths to HIV/AIDS. Such discrepancies are rarely noted. The Republic of South Africa (RSA) stands as the exemplar of these discrepancies, and is reputed to have the world's largest AIDS epidemic with an estimated 5.6 million people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) in 2008. Such PLWH estimates, as with the estimates of HIV/AIDS deaths, are highly questionable. The reasons behind these discrepancies are clarified by describing two common misunderstandings of HIV infection that contribute to poor mathematical modeling outcomes. Unfortunately, the health authorities in the Republic of South Africa grant more validity to computer-generated estimates than to their own empirical death counts. The author discusses why these modeled estimates, and the HIV sero-prevalence surveys upon which they are based, are simply implausible. Presented with full references are raw numerical data on: the tabulated number of HIV/AIDS deaths in the RSA; the number of AIDS cases detected by RSA disease surveillance systems; UNAIDS/WHO estimates for AIDS deaths in the RSA; and UNAIDS/WHO estimates for the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the RSA. The total cumulative HIV/AIDS cases in the United States and Africa are also presented for comparison, and to place the African and RSA data within appropriate epidemiological context. Overall, these data span from 1981 to 2009. Altogether, these data, plus additional information detailing the nature of HIV infection and heterosexual HIV transmission rates, explain why the hyperbolic mathematical estimates and HIV antibody test surveys - the primary sources of HIV/AIDS data in Africa - are simply implausible.