NCJ Number
126940
Date Published
1990
Length
252 pages
Annotation
This book profiles men and women who are long-term AIDS survivors, with the goal of dispelling myths about the fatality of AIDS.
Abstract
The author was diagnosed with AIDS in 1982 and is one of several hundred long-term survivors who are doing reasonably well. In attempting to diffuse public ignorance about AIDS, the author tells his own story as a homosexual who contracted AIDS and the stories of 13 other long-term survivors. The profiles are of men and women of different races who are gay, straight, and bisexual. Methods and approaches by which these people are living with and surviving AIDS are described. The author examines reasons why some people with AIDS survive much longer than others, statistics on the incidence and transmission of AIDS, AIDS scientific research, and AIDS prevention. The book closes with recent reports on medical research that may stem opportunistic infections, the real killers of the disease. Chapter notes