AIDUCATION 20-10 TAKING CONTROL OF TB & AIDS

About the Book

TB and AIDS are visiting and touching many homes in both the developed and developing countries leaving misery, suffering, orphans and in many cases death, that could have been prevented and avoided. This book is for the AIDucators that have participated in driving AIDucation 20-10 in the communities of London. It is for those friends that I had social intercourses with on those Friday and Saturday evenings. It is for the health promoters, the politicians, the pastors, the ministers, the imams, the teachers, the students, the youth, the volunteers, the carers and all those who want to make a difference and bring TB and AIDS under control. The book addresses basic issues that we need to know: Facts on HIV infections, AIDS and TB; the HIV test, voluntary counselling and testing (VCT); common sexually transmitted infections; common HIV – associated conditions and the “popular” Isle of Wight powerpoint presentation that was given to the Christian youths at their summer camp in August 2009. This book might be useful to medical students and nursing students.

About the Author

Dr Edwin Mavunika Mapara is an AIDucator who has been in the field of HIV infections, AIDS and TB since 1983 in Zambia. He was one of the medical students that saw the “first” officially declared person living with AIDS in Zambia, under The Yellow Firm Unit, University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Lusaka. It has been over two decades of Pictures in AIDucation; Setting up voluntary counselling and testing centres; Teaching on TB and AIDS; Advising on several local, national and international organisations. Some of his documented “best practices” include programmes at Livingstone General Hospital (Zambia); Athlone Hospital, Lobatse, (Botswana), Botswana Antiretroviral (ARV) Therapy Programme and Community Health Action Trust (CHAT), London, England. AIDucation is part of university modules on HIV/AIDS for medical doctors and nurses studying Tropical Medicine in London. Dr Mapara has released four books on his experiences that he calls simply “Sex - AIDucation related” in the AIDUCATION 20-10 Project.