UCSF Guides: LGBTQIA+ Health: HIV/AIDS

Books on HIV/AIDS as an LGBT Health Concern at the UCSF Library

HIV+ sex : the psychological and interpersonal dynamics of HIV-seropositive gay and bisexual men's relationships by Perry N. Halkitis, Cynthia A. Gomez, & Richard J. Wolitski, editors.
Call Number: RC606.6 .H575 2005
ISBN: 1591472458
Publication Date: 2005
Explores complex interrelationships of sex decision-making and contextual factors in gay male communities.

Please also see more general books on the HIV/AIDS page of the Consumer Health guide.

Positive prevention : reducing HIV transmission among people living with HIV/AIDS by Seth C. Kalichman, editor.
Call Number: RA643.8 .P675 2005 and RA643.8 .P675 2005eb
ISBN: 0306486997
Publication Date: 2005
Discusses context, practices, and interventions for preventing HIV transmissions. Available as both an e-book and print title through the UCSF Library.
AIDS, culture, and gay men by Douglas A. Feldman, editor.
Call Number: RA644 .A25 A332 2010
ISBN: 0813034310
Publication Date: 2010
An edited collection covering a wide range of topics including HIV prevention interventions, the politics of developing community-based AIDS organizations, Latino AIDS prevention, and international contexts.
Aging with HIV : a gay man's guide by James Masten, with James Schmidtberger.
Call Number: RC606.64 .M37 2011
ISBN: 0199740585
Publication Date: 2011
Discusses the process of change, adaptation versus stagnation, and optimal aging with HIV.
AIDS, identity, and community : the HIV epidemic and lesbians and gay men by Gregory M. Herek, Beverly Greene, editors.
Call Number: RA644 .A25 A36284 1995
ISBN: 0803953615
Publication Date: 1995
Discusses AIDS risks and responses to the epidemic among a wide variety of LGBT communities.
AIDS, communication, and empowerment : gay male identity and the politics of public health messages by Roger Myrick.
Call Number: RA644 .A25 M96 1996
ISBN: 1560238844
Publication Date: 1996
A theoretical and historical analysis of change and evolution in public health messages about AIDS and gay community.
Imagine hope : AIDS and gay identity by Simon Watney.
Call Number: RA644 .A25 W376 2000
ISBN: 1841420573
Publication Date: 2000
A leading cultural theorist of AIDS explored the interaction of AIDS and gay sexualities several years after the introduction of antiretroviral therapies.
Mobility, sexuality and AIDS by Felicity Thomas, Mary Haour-Knipe, Peter Aggleton, editors.
Call Number: RA643.8 .M63 2010
ISBN: 0415477778
Publication Date: 2010
Banning queer blood : rhetorics of citizenship, contagion, and resistance by Jeffrey A. Bennett.
Call Number: RM172 .B46 2009
ISBN: 0817316647
Publication Date: 2009
AIDS and American apocalypticism : the cultural semiotics of an epidemic by Thomas L. Long.
Call Number: RA643.83 .L66 2005
ISBN: 0791461688
Publication Date: 2005

HIV/AIDS Organizations and Resources

This page on HIV/AIDS information focuses on excellent Bay Area resources as well as national resources on health choices, drugs and treatments, and risk prevention.

Organizations and resources dealing with AIDS in specific LGBT communities of color are located on the LGBT People of Color page.

UCSF Alliance Health Project
UCSF AIDS Research Institute (ARI)
UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS)
Positive Health Program
HIV/AIDS Division at San Francisco General Hospital
HIV InSite: For Patients and the Public
This site produced by the UCSF Center for HIV Information offers comprehensive, up to date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy. Areas of coverage include getting tested, recent diagnosis and living with HIV/AIDS, treatment decisions and specific populations.
UCSF AIDS History Project
This archival project housed in the UCSF Library began in 1987 as a collaboration of historians, archivists, and AIDS activists collaborating to preserve historically significant resources relating to the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, focusing on the responses by community-based organizations (CBOs) and activist coalitions.
San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF)
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation offers information on dealing with HIV as well as quality of life programs for people living with HIV/AIDS. The San Francisco AIDS Foundation also works to reduce the number of new infections through prevention programs.
CDC - HIV/AIDS
National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States (Updated to 2020)
Stop AIDS Project
HIV Among Gay and Bisexual Men
This resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) includes fact sheets and information on campaigns and interventions.
HIV Among Transgender People (CDC)
Project Inform
Project Inform of San Francisco offers information about treatment and monitoring of HIV for people living with HIV/AIDS, their caregivers, and their healthcare and service providers. Project Inform has helped make safe and effective HIV medications available, educated hundreds of thousands of HIV-positive individuals about care and treatment, and advocated for funding for HIV programs.
AIDSinfo
AIDSinfo, produced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, offers information on treatment guidelines, drugs, clinical trials, vaccines, and other HIV-related health topics.
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP)
This center is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and offers information on condom effectiveness, health disparities between population groups, and state data profiles of STDs.
AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGIS)
A keyword-searchable database for HIV/AIDS.
International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care
Positive Resource Center
HIVandHepatitis.com
Examines coinfections of HIV and hepatitis.
The Body - The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource
American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)
National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project (NATAP)
AIDS Emergency Fund
AIDS Legal Referral Panel (San Francisco)
Project Open Hand
PBS Frontline - The Age of AIDS
A fascinating PBS Frontline documentary series on the history and spread of the AIDS epidemic, with all four hours freely available for viewing on the PBS website.

Video - Sex Talk: Censorship of LGBT Sexuality in HIV Prevention Messages

A 2004 panel presentation sponsored by the UCLA AIDS Institute and UCLA's Williams Institute on how the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention is undercut by censorship of prevention messages.