AIDS is not just a disease in Africa. It is not a disease that happens "somewhere else".

In Kentucky, nearly 400 new cases of HIV/AIDS were diagnosed in 2011. The new infection demographic demonstrates that young women between the ages of 12-23 years old are most likely to become newly-infected. If they become pregnant and do not take retroviral medications, their children will be born HIV-positive. It is the goal of world AIDS service organizations to end new infections by 2015.

To commemorate the global AIDS epidemic, World AIDS Day is observed annually on December 1st.

Here are a few selected materials on the HIV/AIDS epidemic available in the SCC Learning Commons:

And The Band Played On - Shilts, Randy

Call Number: RA644.A25 S48 1988

ISBN: 0312241356

Publication Date: 1988

Education and HIV/AIDS: A Window of Hope

Call Number: RA643.86.D44 E385 2002

ISBN: 0821351176

Publication Date: 2002

Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS - Ciambrone, Desirʹee

Call Number: RC606.6 .C535 2003

ISBN: 0789017571

Publication Date: 2003

Angels in America - Nichols, Mike (director)

Call Number: PN1997 .A6584 2004

ISBN: 0783129505

Publication Date: 2004

Philadelphia - Demme, Jonathan (director)

Call Number: PN1997 .P4553 2004

ISBN: 0767882490

Publication Date: 2004

And The Band Played On (Film) - Spottiswode, Roger (director)

Call Number: PN1997 .A6581 2001

ISBN: 0783118538

Publication Date: 2001

Here are a few suggestions for appropriate databases in which to research various aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: