HIV/AIDS. A Very Short Introduction
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Author(s): A. Whiteside
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192806925
Format: softback
147pp
Price: £6.99
Review Date: 31 January 2008
Review: This latest in the ‘Short introduction’ series provides an introduction to the science around the pandemic, focusing on the impact that the disease has on households, communities and the national demographic and development indicators. It also looks at the different dynamics of AIDS/HIV throughout the world. There are chapters on: the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic; how HIV/AIDS work and scientific responses; the factors that shape epidemics; illness, death and populations; the impact of AIDS on production and people; AIDS and politics; responding to HIV/AIDS; and the next 25 years.