RESOURCES
    FOR
    Other Important LGBT Health Issues
    [Infectious Diseases / STDs, Mental Health and Mental Disorders,
    Nutrition and Weight, Sexually Transmitted Diseases,
    Tobacco Use, HIV/AIDS, and Cancer.]

    LINKS

    Infectious Diseases / STDs

    • Hepatitis A / B (HBV): A fact sheet from the National Coalition for LGBT Health.

    • Chlamydia Facts: published by THE SAFEGUARDS PROJECT & The LGBT Health Resource Center.

    • Gonorrhea: published by the BC Centre for Disease Control

    Mental Health and Mental Disorders

    • Mental Health Fact Sheet from the National Coalition for LGBT Health.

    • Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Mental Health Resources from the Natonal Alliance on Mental Illness

    Nutrition and Weight

    • Nutrition, Weight and the LGBT Community

    • TAKE ACTION: NUTRITION AND WEIGHT: A fact sheet from the National Coalition for LGBT Health.

    Tobacco Use

    • National LGBT Tobacco Control Network

    • Downloadable Fact Sheets from the National Coalition for LGBT Health (LGBT People and Smoking, LGBT People and Clean Indoor Air, Tobacco Smoke and HIV/AIDS, and LGBT Smoking Cessation Fact Sheet)

    Cancer

    • National LGBT Cancer Network

    HIV/AIDS

    • AIDS Council of Northeastern New York provides services to persons living with HIV or AIDS and their family members in the Capital District and environs

    • New York State Department of Health AIDS information web site

    • NYS Department of Health has a collection of PDF Files Available online

    • The Body, the Complete HIV/AIDS Resource

    • Gay Men's Health Crisis, a community-based organization committed to national leadership in the fight against AIDS.

    • AIDS Info National Library of Medicine, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) project that offers the latest federally approved information on HIV/AIDS

    • AIDS, Sex, and Teens, AVERT, International HIV and AIDS Charity based in the UK, with the aim of AVERTing HIV and AIDS worldwide

    PUBLICATIONS
    [This list is reproduced from http://orion.ramapo.edu/~kfowler/glbt/glbtbibhiv.html]

      Blanchard, R., & Steiner, B. W. (Eds.), Clinical management of gender identity disorders
             in children and adults      , Washington, D.C.: APA (1990)

      Altman, Dennis. Power and Community: Organizational and Cultural Responses to AIDS. London: Taylor and Francis, 1994.

      Altman Dennis and Peter Aggleton, eds.  Men Who Sell Sex:  International Perspectives on Male Prostitution and HIV/AIDS.  Philadelphia: Temple, 1999.

      Andriote, John-Manuel.  Victory Deferred:  How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America.  University of Chicago Press, 1999.

      Ball, Stephen, ed.  The HIV-Negative Gay Man:  Developing Strategies for Survial and Emotional Well-Being.  Haworth Press, 1999.

      Cohen, Cathy.  The Boundaries of Blackness:  AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1999

      Levine, Martin P., John H. Gagnon, and Peter M. Nardi, eds.  Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS.  Chicago:  University of Chicago, 1997.

      Patton, Cindy. Inventing AIDS. NY: Routledge, 1991.

      Rotello, Gabriel.  Sexual Ecology:  AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men.  1998.

      Rubinstein, William B. Ruth Eisenberg and Lawrence O. Gostin. The Rights of People Who are HIV Positive.  Carbodale, Ill: Southern Illinois Press, 1996.

      Rush, Andrea G., comp. HIV Prevention in Native American Communities.Oakland: National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, 1992.

      Tielman, Robert, Manual Carballo and Aart Hendriks.  Bisexuality and HIV/AIDS:  A Global Perspective.  Buffalo, NY: Prometheus,1991.  RA644.A25 B57 1991.

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