Pacific Center Speakers Bureau Frequently Asked Questions And Suggested Responses Set A

FrequentlyAskedQuestionsAndSuggestedResponsesBatchA31.pdf

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Title

Pacific Center Speakers Bureau Frequently Asked Questions And Suggested Responses Set A

Subject

AIDS (Disease)
HIV (Viruses)
HIV/AIDS
AIDS education
AIDS information centres

Description

Document entitled "Frequently Asked Questions about AIDS: Some Suggested Responses to Medical/Epidemiologic Questions" by The East Bay AIDS Project at Pacific Center Speakers Bureau, dated August 1985. Set A.
Page 1: What is AIDS? How extensive is the AIDS epidemic? Who is getting AIDS?
Page 2: How is AIDS transmitted?
Page 3: What are the symptoms of AIDS? What diseases do people with AIDS get?
Page 4: What treatments are available for these diseases? And what about alternative therapies?
Page 5: Exactly how does this retrovirus disarm the immune system?
Page 6: What is the life expectancy of a person with AIDS? What is the incubation period of this disease? What are "safe sex" and "safe needle uses" guidelines?
Page 7: What is it about gay sex that promotes this disease? What is the link between substance abuse and AIDS? How are women and children getting this disease?
Page 8: Why is it that only white people are getting AIDS? Why are only white people dying of AIDS? What about "Pre-AIDS"?
Page 9: Will the AIDS test tell me whether I'l get AIDS? And what about vaccines or cures?

Creator

AIDS Project of the East Bay/Pacific Centre

Source

Arthur Leahy Collection

Date

1985-08

Rights

Digitising these community resources in a publicly accessible digital archive can be seen as fair dealing and reasonable use of these materials (as defined in the 2000 Irish Copyright Act) and in keeping with the ethos and purpose with which they were produced. In addition to this, Permission to Use has also been granted by the owners of the collections and by the relevant community organisations. Items in this digital archive are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No-Derivatives License. Please credit Cork LGBT Archive and provide a link back to this site.

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

Questions and answers
Text

Identifier

2017.21.5.1.563

Coverage

1985

Citation

AIDS Project of the East Bay/Pacific Centre, “Pacific Center Speakers Bureau Frequently Asked Questions And Suggested Responses Set A,” Cork LGBT Archive, accessed May 9, 2024, https://corklgbtarchive.com/items/show/876.