The basic biology of the virus, HIV, and the disease it causes, AIDS. The economic, social and political factors that determine who gets sick and who remains healthy, who lives and who dies. The progress of scientific research and medical treatments. The reasons for hope; the reasons for fear. (To get a glimpse of some of the materials that students have been posting on the course forums, go to @AIDSFAH or #AIDSFAH.)
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AIDS: Fear and Hope
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Unit 1 - Beginnings: A New Disease Surprises The World
HIV Basics, Stigma, Three Books, Chimps to Humans, Some Memories
Unit 2 - Transmission, Gender, Politics
Transmission, Gender, More Memories
Unit 3 - Testing (and Some Politics and Memories)
The Critical Issue--Testing
Unit 4 - Living With HIV
Not a death sentence, but not easy; More Politics, Sexual Orientation
Reviews
- 5 stars84.38%
- 4 stars13.85%
- 3 stars1.25%
- 1 star0.50%
TOP REVIEWS FROM AIDS: FEAR AND HOPE
Thank you Dr. Meisler for opening my eyes to this virus. I hope to do my part in breaking the stigma of a loved one having HIV/AIDS.
Very helpful in intro healcare edu on hiv/aids;
The course content is very colaborative and insightful by having interdiciplnary knowdges from different fields
Extremely useful course. Thank you Univ of Michigan for the course. :-)
I Love this course, methodology. In the future, research and review project to motivate the further reasonable information from this topic
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