Product Description
This is a comprehensive guide to HIV and AIDS with the latest information on treatment. It looks at understanding the nature of this disease: its causes and effects, how it is being treated and what better treatment options are being developed. It discusses how HIV is transmitted, what a T-cell count is, when anti-viral treatment should begin, protease inhibitors and whether they stop the progression of AIDS, and how the disease differs in men, women and children. Many questions are answered in this guide which covers the latest research in terms comprehensible to non-scientists, including the recent findings on combined drug therapy. The AmFAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research) is the leading non-profit organization dedicated to the support of laboratory and clinical research on AIDS, AIDS prevention and advocacy for sound AIDS-related public policy.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 5 reviews)

Good Introductory Book!

This is a good book to read if you are unfamiliar and want a "quick" overview of the epidemic. It's a little outdated, there is a need to write a new one with more up to date information, so this would only be an introduction. I would recommend reading up to date research articles to get the full scope of what is happening and demographics, but all in all I would recommend this book to everyone.
May 07, 2007

Another piece of 'AID$' industry nonsense.

After 20 years of hysteria, alarmism, misplaced recrimination and guilt, AIDS fatigue has beaten the newspaper-reading mind into a kind of blank.

Citizens can't be faulted for not knowing how exactly to respond to last week's eruption of scandal from an NIH whistle-blower named Jonathan Fishbein, an AIDS researcher charged with overseeing clinical trials here and abroad.

A reverberating language of bureaucracy and euphemism surrounds AIDS stories, making it impossible to know what has actually transpired. When people die from AIDS drugs, for instance, the word "death" is studiously avoided.

I have seen medical articles documenting the fact that more people now die of toxicities from AIDS drugs than from the vanishingly opaque syndrome we once called AIDS. Death was referred to as a "grade four event," thus placing it eerily within the acceptable parameters of predictable phenomena in AIDS research--not as a failure, a crisis or even something to lame
December 11, 2006

Very Informative

I purchased this book for a report that I was doing on AZT, an AIDS/HIV drug. Not only is this an informative book, it is one of the most blunt books I have ever read. If you need information for a report, or just because you want to learn more, this is the book for you.
March 16, 2006

Good Reference, Hard Read

This book is great to have on your shelf, but a tough one to keep by your bed. At times it gets rather technical, and doesn't explain the practical side of things. It is a wonderful reference, you can probably find anything you'd like (at least, dated year 2000). It is not a book for people who know very little about AIDS, I'd suggest getting familiar with it all first.
July 18, 2001

Struggling for Answers?

This is a great book for both people living with AIDS and people struggling to understand the disease.
September 21, 2000

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