Books About STD
Choices
Jeffrey S. Nevid, Fern Gotfried
Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
January 1995
Choices: Sex in the Age of STDs
Jeffrey S. Nevid
Viacom Company
August 1997
Color Atlas and Synopsis of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Hunter Handsfield
McGraw-Hill Professional
December 2000
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Ann Byers
Enslow Publishers, Inc.
April 1999
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Julie K. Endersbe
Capstone Press
September 1999
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Vaccines, Prevention and Control
Lawrence R. Stanberry, David I. Bernstein (Editor)
Academic Press, Inc.
February 2000
STDS: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Diane Yancey
Twenty-First Century Books, Inc.
April 2002
Soap, Water and Sex: A Lively Guide to the Benefits of Sexual Hygiene and Coping with Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Jacob Lipman
Prometheus Books
January 1998
Understanding Herpes
Lawrence Raymond Stanberry, Regan Causey Tuder (Illustrator)
University Press of Mississippi, March 1998
General Books For Teachers, Middle Grades & High School Learners
AIDS
William A. Check, C. Everett Koop (Introduction)
Chelsea House Publishers
March 2000
AIDS, Drugs and Society
Anna Alexandrova
International Debate Education Association
April 2002
AIDS Update
Gerald J. Stine, Ph.D.
Upper Saddle River
Prentice-Hall Professional Technical Reference Annual Publication
December 2001
Children and HIV/AIDS
Constance Ryan (Editor), Susan Taylor-Brown (Editor), Myra White-Gray (Editor), Gary R. Anderson
Transaction Publishers
January 1999
Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural and Scientific Record of
the HIV Epidemic
Raymond A. Smith
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Inc.
April 2000
The Global HIV/AIDS Emergency
Gordon Morrison
Commonwealth Secretariat
June 2001
HIV-AIDS Instructional Guide for Teachers, Grades 4-5
Publishing Company DIANE (Editor), DIANE Publishing Company (Editor) / Paperback / DIANE
Publishing Company
March 1994
The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS
Edward Hooper, Foreword by W. D. Hamilton
Little, Brown & Company
December 2000
Teaching About Sexuality and HIV:
Principle of Methods for Effective Education
Evonne Hedgepeth, Joan Helmich
New York University Press, June 1996
University Press of Mississippi, March 1998
Children’s Books About STD & AIDS/HIV
AIDS—Answers to Questions Kids Ask
Barbara Dever, Kimberley Clark (Editor), Marcy Ramsey (Illustrator)
Creative Teaching Press, Inc.
July 1996
AIDS: Can This Epidemic Be Stopped?
Karen Manning
Twenty-First Century Books, Inc.
December 1997
The AIDS Dictionary
Sarah Barbara Watstein, Karen Chandler
Facts on File, Inc.
June 1998
AIDS and HIV: Risky Business
Daniel Jussim
Enslow Publishers, Inc.
March 1997
AIDS: Why Should I Care?
Robert Starr
PTAAA Press
February 1999
Be a Friend: Children Who Live with HIV Speak
Lori S. Wiener, Philip A. Pizzo, Aprille Best
Albert Whitman
February 1996
Carmine’s Story: A Book about a Boy Living with AIDS
Arlene Schulman
Lerner Publishing Group
November 1997
Coping when a Parent Has AIDS
Barbara Hermie Draimin
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
August 1993
Coping when You or a Friend Is HIV Positive
Pat Kelly, C. Sherry
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
August 1997
Everything You Need to Know about AIDS
Barbara Taylor, Evan Stark (Editor), Ruth C. Rosen (Editor), Evan Stark (Editor)
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
July 1998
Everything You Need to Know about AIDS and HIV
Katherine White
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
February 2001
Everything You Need to Know about STD
Samuel G. Woods
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
January 2000
Inside AIDS: HIV Attacks the Immune System
Conrad J. Storad
Lerner Publishing Group
July 1998
Kids with AIDS
Anna Forbes, Designed by Erin McKenna
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
December 1996
Magic Johnson
Martin Schwabacher
Chelsea House Publishers
January 1994
Ryan White: My Own Story
Ann M. Cunningham
Mass Market Paperback
July 1992
The Science, Spread and Therapy of HIV Disease: Everything You
Need to Know, but Had No Idea Who to Ask
Michael Anthony DiSpezio
A T L Press, Scientific Publishers, Inc.
June 1998
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Vaccines, Prevention and Control
Lawrence R. Stanberry, David I. Bernstein (Editor)
Academic Press, Inc.
February 2000
Staying Alive: Fighting HIV/AIDS
Fran R. Balkwill, Mic Rolph, Mic Rolph (Illustrator)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
June 2002
STDs: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Diane Yancey
Twenty-First Century Books, Inc.
April 2002
AIDS Movies
Around the Fire: About high school kids, sex, some violence, drugs. With
free reviews by nameless muses. The reviews are free and come with a money
back guarantee!
Boys in the Band: Pre-AIDS era movie about gay life. Helps understand
how the epidemic started with homosexual men. Free of stereotyping and
sentimentality (mostly).
Common Threads: About the AIDS Quilt, how it got made, the stories of the
squares. Beautiful.
Firepower: Urban, violent, futuristic, involves gangs, cops, and the sale of
counterfeit AIDS vaccines.
I’m Losing You: Death, loss, murder, and bilking AIDS patients with insurance
policies. Also love affair between insurance salesman and AIDS victim.
Jeffrey: Believe it or not, an AIDS comedy, by screenwriter Paul Rudnick.
The Last Supper: An artist and dancer who is dying from an AIDS infection
chooses to end his own life rather than continue to suffer from the deterioration
associated with his disease. With the help of his doctor and his lover, his final
endeavour is to choreograph his own death. To do so, he surrounds himself with
the people, places, and things that have brought meaning to his life.
Letters From Home: Begins with a speech by Vito Russo, Letters enjoin a chorus
of speakers to sound off on AIDS, love, and death.
Long Time Companion: The 1990 movie follows the lives of 9 gay New
Yorkers as they respond to loss brought about by AIDS.
Parting Glances: 1986 feature film about the early days of AIDS focusing on a
gay couple who deal with the disease.
Philadelphia: Award-winning film with Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks
about a lawyer who reluctantly helps a colleague to win his right to employment in
spite of being gay and sick.
Sex Is... : X rated, not for learners, but a serious look at erotic consequences of
the AIDS epidemic.
Undetectable: Deals with both the hope and challenges of drug-prolonged life
for those infected with HIV; promotes safe behaviors and encourages compassion
as it convinces viewers that “AIDS is not over.”
National Organizations
Addiction Research and Treatment Corp.
22 Chapel St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-834-5300
Researches the relationship of drug and alcohol addiction to sexual
practices and exposure to the AIDS virus.
AIDS Foundation
3202 Westlayan Annex
Houston, TX
713-623-6796
Public speaking, education, social services, fund raising, phone
buddies, pet care, and food pantry.
AIDS Treatment Resource
259 West 30th St.
New York, NY 10001
212-268-4196
212-268-4199 (fax)
ATR provides information on AIDS treatments and drug trials.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
AIDS Activity Office
1600 Clifton Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30333
Information on prevention, testing, control, and transmission of
HIV 1. Statistics on women, adolescents, race, and ethnicity are
available. The Surgeon General’s Report on AIDS is also available.
Global AIDS Policy Coalition (GAPC)
International AIDS Center
Harvard School of Public Health
665 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
617-432-4316
International network for AIDS policy and program research.
Institute for Immunological Disorders
7407 North Freeway
Houston, TX 77076
713-691-3531
Conducts experimental studies on the treatment of AIDS and ARC
and the antiviral drug Ribavirin.
National AIDS Information Clearing House
PO Box 6003
Rockville, MD 20850
800-458-5231
800-243-7012
General information on AIDS, AIDS in the workplace and clinical
trials currently underway.
National Institute of Health AIDS Research
1600 Research Blvd.
Rockville MD 20850
800-458-5231
Clinical trials information services, drug experimentation
referrals, employee legislation laws, cost projections, insurance
information, publications.
Pediatric AIDS Foundation
1311 Colorado Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
213-395-9051
Basic research of pediatric HIV/AIDS.
Project Inform (PI)
1965 Market Street Suite 220
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-558-8669
US Public Health Service
Public Affairs Office
Hubert Humphrey Building
Room 725 - H
200 Independence Ave. SW
Washington, DC 20201
202-690-6248
Worldwide Organizations
Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association
Rua Lopes Quitas 576
Jardim Botanico
22460 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Prevention, education and information. Serves as a clearing house
and resource center. Seminars and programs.
Haitian Coalition on AIDS
50 Court St., Suite 605
Brooklyn NY 11201
718-855-0972
Educate the public concerning what the coalition feels is discriminatory classification
of Haitians as an ethnonational group that runs a high risk of contracting AIDS.
International AIDS Prospective Epidemiology Network
c/o David Ostrow
155 N Harbor, No. 5103
Chicago, IL 60601
312-565-2109
Increase the effectiveness of AIDS research through cooperation,
standardization of methodology, and data pooling. Facilitates the
exchange of information.
International Society for STD Research
c/o Professor Peter Piot
Institute for Tropical Medicine
Nationalestraat 155
B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Promote research and exchange information concerning sexually transmitted diseases.
World Health Organization
525 23rd St., NW
Washington, DC 20037
202-861-4346
Worldwide information about HIV testing, transmission, statistics, and prevention.
World Health Organization; Collaborating Centre on AIDS
c/o CDC
1600 Clifton Rd. NE
Atlanta, GA 30333
404-639-3311
Research and public health programs which deal with the AIDS disease.
National Hotlines
AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service
800-TRIALS-A/800-243-7012
AIDS Crisis line
800-221-7044
AIDS Hotline
800-323-AIDS
AIDS Treatment News
800-TREAT-1-2
AIDS Education Project
916-365-2304
AIDS Prevention Program
800-327-3577
AIDS Prevention Project
800-445-6262
American Social Health Association
800-227-8922
National AIDS Clearinghouse
800-458-5231
National AIDS Hotline
800-342-AIDS/800-344-SIDA/800-AIDS-TTY
National Association of Persons with AIDS
800-828-3280
National Institute on Drug Abuse
800-662-HELP
Office on HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases
800-272-2437
The AIDS Teen Hotline
800-440-TEEN
U.S. Public Health Service
800-342-AIDS
VD National Hotline
800-227-8922