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Goldfinch, Ellen – Library Media Connection, 2007
The AIDS pandemic has become an important force that is shaping the world and will certainly have an enormous impact on the lives of young people today. Forty million people around the world are suffering from HIV/AIDS and, every year, eight million people die of this disease. As both school librarian and teacher of the Challenge and Change course…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Boarding Schools, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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Burnes, David P. R.; Antle, Beverley J.; Williams, Charmaine C.; Cook, Lisa – Health & Social Work, 2008
This qualitative study used the long interview method with Canadian mothers of African and Caribbean descent to understand the underresearched experience of raising a child with sickle cell disease (SCD). Mothers' realities were explored through three levels of social organization: daily caregiver coping (micro level); community views of SCD, such…
Descriptors: Mothers, Diseases, Coping, Foreign Countries