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World AIDS Day - 1st December 2023

 World AIDS Day is celebrated every year on 1st December to unite people across the world in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Medical advances in the UK mean that people with the HIV virus can now lead long and healthy lives, however, HIV continues to be highly stigmatised and misunderstood.  World AIDS Day aims to highlight the discrimination still experienced by many.

 RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES 

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information 

BOOKS   

  • HIV in primary care; Madge, Sara; 2011 (Medical Foundation for AIDs & Sexual Health); 2nd edition.
  • AIDS: science and society; Fan, Hung Y; Conner, Ross F & Villarreal, Luis P; 2011 (Jones and Bartless Publishers); 6th edition.

JOURNALS   

  • AIDS research and treatment; Hindawi Publishing Corporation. [Available as an Open Access e-journal for Keele & NHS from 2009 onwards.]

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/ 

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

N.B. All the above articles are Open Access so are available to both Keele & NHS users.

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians.For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/. 

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