PBS
Pbs Teachers: Aids Today
Learn about HIV infection, discrimination and AIDS and research current information and statistics on HIV and AIDS. Explore and compare the AIDS situaton in America and Africa and consider why HIV prevention is essential.
New York Times
New York Times: Aids in Africa
An interactive slide show that presents the effect on children in Africa because of AIDS. Shows the impact on the children that become orphaned from AIDS.
New York Times
New York Times: Aids and Tradition in Africa
This interactive resource discusses rituals in Africa that could lead to the spread of AIDS. The ritual is a hut cleansing ritual that could spread AIDS very quickly through families.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Aids in Africa
Activity-based resource on the AIDS epidemic and Africa. Students answer a set of questions for discussion and participate in an activity in which they analyze the literature and make recommendations as if from the U.S. State Department....
Other
The Global Hiv:aids Epidemic
A comprehensive look at the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the strides made in treatment and prevention over the past 30 years.
BBC
Bbc: Brazil Gets Cut Price Aids Drug
A July 2007 report detailing the agreement on the cost of Aids medication between Brazil and Abbot a giant pharmaceutical corporation. Also provides links to related stories.
Remedy Health Media
The Body: Focus on the Hiv Aids Connection
A good article that supports the evidence that HIV and AIDS have a causal relationship. Links to additional information on this subject. Original resource from 2000 U. S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Remedy Health Media
The Body: When Did Aids Begin?
This site from The Body provides an article summarizing recent research that traces the origins of the HIV virus possible back to the 1940s in Africa. Original resource from 1998 Times Magazine.
Other
Unaids: The Joint United Nations Programme on Hiv:aids
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, is the main advocate for global action on the epidemic. Their resource contains numerous statistical data by region/country, publications, news articles, fact sheets, information on...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Molecular Targets of Antiretroviral Therapies
Read this passage and study the graphics to complete a five-question quiz related to the viral life cycle and antiretroviral therapies for HIV/AIDS.