Title: The no-nonsense guide to HIV/AIDS /
Authors: Usdin, Shereen
Date: 2003
Publisher: New Internationalist ;
Physical description: 144 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: Tells the story so far, looking at the origins of the desease, the way it spreads, and examining the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability, and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back. [back cover].
Contents: 1. New world disorder -- 2. "Why us, why now?" : what is fuelling the epidemic -- 3. Sex and drugs and rock'n'roll : the science of HIV -- 4. The politics of profit -- 5. Turning the tide : responses to the epidemic.
Subject headings (LCSH): HIV infections; HIV infections--Prevention