HIV Basics 101
Abstract
The New School university's Student Health Services unit published the digital guide, HIV Basics 101, to familiarize students with human immunodeficiency virus, widely referred to as HIV.
Dates
- Captured: 2024-02-06
- Publication: 2023
Extent
.006 Gigabytes (1 PDF/A file)
Language of Materials
English
Content Description
Student Health Services, the unit of The New School responsible for student health and wellbeing, sponsored this digital publication, which was embedded in a university event web page devoted to World AID's Day 2023, observed on December 1. https://event.newschool.edu/worldaidsday2023
Members of The New School community received information about World AIDS Day events via email, which led them to the web page.
HIV Basics 101 is a digital publication consisting of five sections: Basics, Living with HIV, How the Virus Gets Shared, Prevention, and Testing. Included in the guide are external links to trustworthy sources of information about HIV, such as the Coalition for Harm Reduction and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a federal government agency devoted to public health. Additionally, a link embedded within the guide allows matriculated New School student readers to register for HIV testing through Student Health Services.
People who contributed to the guide include Eugene Lang College faculty member Ted Kerr, as well as students and individuals whose relationship to The New School is unknown to The New School Archives.
Archivist Jenny Swadosh requested that this guide be downloaded and preserved as evidence of changing attitudes toward prevention, care, and de-stigmatization around issues of HIV, especially in the years immediately following the Covid-19 pandemic. Researchers may compare language used in the guide with earlier guides and advice for young people on prevention and living with HIV/AIDS.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Archivist Alan Weber downloaded file from The New School's World AIDS Day event page on February 6, 2024. https://event.newschool.edu/worldaidsday2023
Processing Information
Archivist Alan Weber converted the file to the PDF/A-1b format for preservation purposes.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin