AIDS /
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen.
- San Diego : Detroit : Lucent Books ; Thomson/Gale, c2005.
- 112 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Diseases and disorders .
- Diseases and disorders series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-104) and index.
Origins of an epidemic -- An anatomy of an infection -- New weapons against HIV -- A global epidemic -- The dream of a vaccine -- The future of AIDS.
Library Media Connection starred, October 2005
Provides a synopsis of HIV/AIDS including its origins before the 1950s and world awareness of the disease in the 1980s, how it is spread, treatment and vaccines, as well as a list of AIDS organizations.