AIDS And the Policy Struggle in the United States

With an initial chapter that clearly follows the tangled historical string from the first realizations of a medical emergency to today's overwhelming worldwide epidemical crisis, the author goes on to look at how medical treatments for AIDS have changed and grown; how blood policies were formed; how value-based debates raged and continue to rage over prevention; how communities developed to first respond to the crisis, and later organized to fight for health care; and finally{14}now that AIDS is recognized for the global crisis it is{14}how foreign policy is being shaped.