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    Definition

    “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS): Viral disease caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). AIDS usually leads to death within eight to eleven years of exposure to HIV.  Its spread requires contact between contaminated body fluids and the blood or mucous membranes of another person." (Encyclopedia of Social Issues)

     

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    • How can the spread of AIDS be prevented?

    • Should there be mandatory testing for health care workers?

    • Has the government adequately funded AIDS research?

    • What are the latest treatments and how have they changed patients’ prognosis?

    • Should AIDS be treated as a chronic manageable disease rather than a fatal one?

    • Can AIDS education prevent the spreads of AIDS among teenagers?

    • Can needle-exchange programs prevent AIDS?

    • Should HIV test results be confidential or reported to the state?

    •           What can be done to combat resistant HIV strains?
    •           How far off is an AIDS/HIV vaccine?
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    Available at the Reference Desk

    CQ Researcher Plus Archive “Battling HIV/AIDS”    11/14/07

    Opposing Viewpoints: AIDS; Vaccines; Club Drugs  (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center  Database)

    At Issue: Responding to the Aids Epidemic  (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center  Database)

    Issues and Controversies "Worldwide Aids Epidemic" 6/24/05 p.249-256

     

    Reference Books

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    Encyclopedia of Evolution
    Call Number: REF QH 360.2 .R53 2007



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    Encyclopedia of human rights
    Call Number: REF JC571 .E673 2009


     
     

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    • CQ Researcher Plus Archive  
        
      CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue each week, ranging from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science. Forty-four reports produced each year, including four expanded reports. Includes charts, and graphs.
    • Issues and Controversies  
        
      Issues and Controversies offers a wealth of current topics research information, including pro/con discussions of hot issues, newspaper editorials, numerical snapshots of key topics, photos and graphics, and selected historical source documents.
    • Opposing Viewpoints  
        
      Opposing Viewpoints searches viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles and more social issues.
    • Academic Search Complete  
        
      Academic Search Complete provides full-text for more than 4,650 publications, including full-text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.
    • America's Newspapers  
        
      America's Newspapers from NewsBank provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 600 U.S. newspapers - all in one easy-to-search database.
    • Subject Specific Databases
     

    Statistics

    Health United States (Ref Desk) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm
    Statistical Abstract of the United States http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
    National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/aids-hiv.htm
    Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/summary.html
    Information Plus: AIDS/HIV; Health and Wellness: (Ref Desk) (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Database)


     

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    • MLA Update 2009
      In Summer 2008, the Modern Language Association released its third edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, which publicly unveiled modifications to MLA Style for the upcoming year.
      These changes go into effect in April 2009.
    • Sample of MLA Work Cited Page
      From Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University
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