Working with women and AIDS : medical, social, and counselling issues / edited by Judy Bury, Val Morrison, and Sheena McLachlan ; foreword by Margaret Jay
Women and the AIDS epidemic: Some medical facts and figures / Judy Bury -- Social issues: An overview / Joy Barlow -- Reflections on women and HIV/AIDS in New York City and the United States / Edith Springer -- Pregnancy, heterosexual transmission and contraception / Judy Bury -- Pregnancy and HIV: Screening, counselling and services / Mary Hepburn -- HIV and the sex industry / Ruth Morgan Thomas -- Developing a service for prostitutes in Glasgow / Netta Maciver -- Education and the prevention of HIV infection / Judy Bury -- Offering safer sex counselling to women from drug-using communities / Jane Wilson -- Women as carers / Jane Wilson -- Feelings and needs of women who are HIV positive / Kate Bisset and Jennifer Gray -- Being positive / Kate Thomson -- Poems / Ruth Gilfillan
Summary
Annotation Provides a unique and readable combination of up-to-date medical information, a discussion of social issues, personal accounts and practical advice about ways of working with women affected by HIV and AIDS