aids (disease)

Discusses the history, diagnosis, causes, prevention, and treatment of a disease that has affected more people over a wider geographic range than any other epidemic.

Discusses the history of AIDS, its causes, stages, diagnosis, treatments, and related research.

"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.

Reviews the history of the epidemic of AIDS and HIV, its impact, and the continuing efforts to combat it worldwide. The book includes sidebars and timelines that demonstrate how the epidemic has spread around the globe.

Focuses on the specific issue, AIDS in developing countries, and offers a variety of perspectives eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more to illuminate the issue.

Presents the history of the AIDS epidemic around the world, discussing the science, politics, and culture of the disease.

Sixteen essays argue opposing points on AIDS, covering its history, the epidemic in Africa, and various AIDS issues and presenting personal stories; also includes a glossary, a chronology, and an annotated list of organizations to contact.

Presents balanced opposing points of view on five key topics of the complex and sensitive issue of the AIDS disease.

A collection of thirteen controversial essays that debate the topic of AIDS addressing issues such as untested drugs, prevention strategies, and mother-to-child HIV transmission.