Aimed initially at students who want to study the history of the Aids epidemic but who currently have no starting point from which to enter the vast and often technical literature. Uses medical, anthropological and eye-witness sources but assumes no prior knowledge of the epidemic. An accessible book on the most terrible catastrophe of modern times. CONTENTS: Intentions; Origins; Epidemic in western equatorial Africa; The drive to the East; The conquest of the South; The penetration of the West; Causation: a synthesis; Responses from above; Views from below; NGOs and the evolution of care; Death and the household; The epidemic matures; Containment; Conclusion; Index. 224pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

The author first visited Malawi in 1999, 15 years after testing HIV positive. This book describes his research into why Aids has affected Africa so dramatically, and his failure to persuade European politicians to react to the catastrophe. 213pp, MALAWI. KACHERE SERIES, 999087624X

Across Africa, HIV/AIDS is slowly killing millions of people in the prime of their lives, weakening state-structures, deepening poverty and reversing the gains in life expectancy achieved over the past century. Although many who study the dynamics of Africa's AIDS crisis accept that, to some degree, its entrenchment is a socially produced phenomenon, few have examined the contributions of the continent's ubiquitous poverty, the impact of the pervasive Structural Adjustment Programmes or Africa's marginalization in the process of globalization, on the course and intensity of the epidemic. This book explores the socio-economic context of Africa's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS as well as assessing the politics of domestic and global response. Using primary and secondary data, the book charts the power relations driving Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic, frustrating the possibility of alleviation and recovery as well as working to relegate the continent to a bleak and vulnerable future. In this sense, this book marks a radical departure by providing a comprehensive analysis of Africa's vulnerability to AIDS and the challenges confronting policy makers as they seek to reverse the escalating prevalence of AIDS on the continent. Index, bib, notes, 235pp, UK. POLITY PRESS.

Second edition, fully revised and updated. Links the growth of the HIV/AIDS epidemic to national and global inequalities. Tables, figs, notes, bib, index, 449pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

An immensely powerful series of photographs taken across Africa of people and families suffering from AIDS. Commissioned by Christian Aid and shown at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London in May 2001. B/W photographs, 36pp, UK. CHRISTIAN AID, 0904379477

Conspiracy theory polemic on the origins and spread of HIV/AIDS as a device to exterminate Africans. 111pp, ZAMBIA. SELF-PUBLISHED TITLE.

2005 9789982871020 Paperback

HIV/AIDS is without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. This Very Short Introduction provides an introduction to the disease, tackling the science, the international and local politics, the fascinating demographics, and the devastating consequences of the disease, and explores how we have, and must, respond. Index, 147pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

When diagnosed with breast cancer Susan Sontag discovered the extent to which we have developed a mythology to cope with disease, which can often distort the truth about illness and isolate the patient. In Illness as Metaphor she strips away the myths and presents the true significance of disease as it has affected cultures throughout the centuries. AIDS and Its Metaphors extends her critique to examine the metaphors surrounding AIDS and to expose the truth, free of shame. 180pp, UK . PENGUIN BOOKS 0141187123

Now in paperback. Reporting from countries including Uganda, South Africa, Haiti, India, Russia, Cuba and Brazil the author reveals how some pilot and national treatment programs are working to contain the epidemic while others are failing to address the dire needs of communities. D'Adesky analyses the obstacles to providing universal access to antiretroviral drugs and discusses the potential of AIDS treatment programs to bolster prevention efforts and help build shattered economies. Index, gloss, notes, vi, 496pp, UK. VERSO.

A guide to the essential issues and history surrounding HIV/AIDS since the virus was discovered 25 years ago. The author describes the way it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability, and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back. Index, bib, tables, graphs, 144pp, UK. VERSO, 1859844596

An introduction to the issues surrounding the AIDS crisis in Africa. The author looks at the history of colonialism, and current tropes of exploitation such economic restructuring and neo liberalism and how these impact on the internal dynamics of the epidemic. The author has twenty year experience working in Africa combating the spread of the virus. Index, notes, vi, 247pp, UK. PALGRAVE/MACMILLAN, 1403936153