AIDucation 20-10: Taking Control of TB

This book is about tuberculosis (TB), HIV infections, and AIDS education (AIDucation). It is about empowering communities to prevent TB and HIV infections. It is about caring for those living with TB, HIV, and AIDS. According to the author: "AIDS and TB, 'the deadly two' are public health concerns that have devastated the global village. Africa has been grossly affected and accounts for more than 70% of the human tragedy. There is no cure for AIDS. There is a cure for TB. Despite this very basic fact, millions of people do not have the knowledge to prevent the HIV infections that cause AIDS. In the same vein, more than two million people die every year due to TB alone and half a million due to TB combined with AIDS...This book is about taking control of TB, which can be helpful in preventing new TB and HIV infections."

The book intends to:

• teach about HIV infections, TB infections, and AIDS as public health disasters;
• inform, educate, and empower people to run AIDS awareness and TB control programmes;
• help reduce procrastination and denial associated with AIDS and TB;
• motivate readers to fight stigma and discrimination in their local communities;
• make HIV and TB infections visible to the public;
• enlighten people about the history of the AIDS and TB programmes at Livingstone General Hospital, Zambia (1989); Athlone Hospital, Lobatse, Botswana (1990); Community Health Action Trust (CHAT), London, United Kingdom (2005); London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK (2005 to date)."
• inform readers about the value of African human resources, programmes, and sayings (as ways to teach lessons); and
• inform health promoters, teachers, educators, AIDS educators, and facilitators about the teaching method that includes the use of images and pictures and the sharing of life experiences.