The AIDS Pandemic
Subtitle: Impact on Science and Society
Contributors: Kenneth H. Mayer (Editor); H. F. Pizer (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: December 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780124652712
Subjects: AIDS: social aspects; HIV / AIDS; Medical research; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Industrial Health & Safety; Infectious Diseases; Science / Microbiology; AIDS (Disease); Epidemiology
First sentence: We are now well into the third decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and we have seen it become the most severe infectious disease threat to humanity since the Black Death of the fourteenth century.