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World Health Organization

World Health Organization: Hiv/aids

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the risk factors, symptoms, prevention, and treatment for HIV and AIDS on this website. Website includes data about the disease from around the world, fact sheets, links, and videos.
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PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: The Aids Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource examines the AIDS crisis. Articles on free HIV tests and prevention are included. The resource consists of HIV/Aids infections by region and a teacher lesson plan.
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Remedy Health Media

The Body: Hiv Infection and Aids

For Students 9th - 10th
A good article on the infection of HIV and the subsequent disease. Discusses transmission and symptoms. Original resource from 2008 U. S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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Other

Aids.org

For Students 9th - 10th
This is AIDS.org, educating, raising awareness, and building community regarding the AIDS virus. Includes facts, information on testing, news, books, programs, and more.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Surviving Aids: Fighting Back (Hot Science)

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the body's immune system to understand how a virus enters the body and how the human body fights against the viruses like the mumps virus and HIV.
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Website
New York Times

New York Times: Aids at 20

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of articles that look at the history of AIDS over the twenty-year period from its first emergence in 1981 up to 2001.
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Website
United Nations

United Nations Cyberschoolbus: Hiv Aids Briefing Paper for Students

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the UN Cyberschool program provides a briefing for students on the global struggle against HIV/AIDS. In addition to basic facts, it examines what is happening in Zambia to fight AIDS. It also provides; suggestions for...
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Other

Avert: Global Hiv and Aids Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides in-depth coverage of the AIDS epidemic as it affects countries around the world. Content includes a look at the disease as it has spread from being a minor danger to an uncontrolled epidemic.
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Scientific American

Scientific American: Aids Today and Tomorrow: In Depth Reports

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of Scientific American articles from 2008 on the topic of AIDS.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Act Up and the Aids Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore AIDS activism during the 1980s.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Aids Today

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Undp: Reversing the Epidemic Aids in Eastern Europe

For Students 9th - 10th
A UN report on the Aids epidemic in central, eastern Europe and the Russian federation. These areas are undergoing a major increase in aids infections.
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National Institutes of Health

Nlm Hiv: Aids Information

For Students 9th - 10th
Government site featuring information on drugs, consumer news, treatments and links to other resources.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Infectious Diseases Cards: Hiv [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This PDF fact card on HIV explains how you can get the virus, the effect it has on your body, and how to protect yourself from infection. Requires Adobe Reader.
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The White House

The White House: Office of National Aids Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
The Office of National AIDS Policy was founded to help educate and reduce the number of new cases of HIV/AIDS in the United States. This site links you to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention HIV/AIDS website. Includes video.
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University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Attacking Aids

For Students 9th - 10th
The Why Files have provided a wonderful site examining the possible AIDS vaccines being developed. Several topics are discussed, including topics about the chemical makeup of the virus itself.
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: What Every Young Person Should Know Hiv Aids

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what HIV AIDS is, how it is contracted, how it is diagnosed, the signs and symptoms, treatment and prevention, and the stigma people face when their condition is revealed.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Hiv and Aids

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, causes AIDS. AIDS stands for "acquired immune deficiency syndrome." It is a condition that causes death and does not have a...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Hiv and Aids

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how HIV is transmitted and how it causes AIDS.
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Other

Merck Source: Hiv/aids Information

For Students 9th - 10th
Begin here for resources and information on HIV and AIDS.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Nclex Rn Questions on Hiv/aids 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice questions related to HIV/AIDS.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.54 Hiv Aids

For Students 5th - 9th
Understand the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
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Article
Remedy Health Media

The Body: Hiv/aids Frequently Asked Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
A good Q & A that covers a lot of the common questions that usually occur during discussions of HIV or AIDS. Good science behind the discussion. Original resource from 1999 U. S. Public Health Service's Office of Women's Health.
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Remedy Health Media

The Body: Fact Sheet:ten Things to Know About Hiv/aids

For Students 9th - 10th
Very good, straightforward facts (as we know it from research) about the HIV virus. Clears up common misconceptions. Original resource from 1998 American Association for World Health.

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