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HIV / AIDS Awareness Month - December 2025

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 HIV/AIDS Awareness Month takes place each December. According to the charity National AIDS Trust there are more than 105,000 people already living in the UK with HIV. This campaign helps to raise awareness of the virus and fights to reduce the stigma surrounding it.

 RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer 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

  • Fundamentals of HIV Medicine 2025; Chu, Carolyn; The American Academy of HIV Medicine; 2025 (Oxford University Press) – [available as a both a Keele and an NHS e-book]

JOURNALS

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT log-ins to view Keele e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke. NHS ejournals will require login with an NHS Open Athens account.

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

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ARTICLES

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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