acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Discusses the scope of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its effect on American lives, from unborn children to prisoners.

A guide that cuts through the confusion surrounding AIDS and helps those it concerns to arrive at a rational course of action to reduce personal risk.

Discusses the disease, how AIDS is contracted, who is likely to develop it, available treatment, and lists AIDS Crisis Centers around the world.

Discusses the possible origins, symptoms, and characteristics of AIDS, the ongoing search for a cure, and myths and fears concerning the epidemic.

Stories and discussion questions focus on the AIDS disease describing how the virus is transmitted, who is at risk, and the disease's damaging effects on the body's immune system.

"Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and Harvard AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin, PhD, recount for the first time how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new genetic discoveries, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best means to fight it today"--Provided by publisher.