The Horn Book Guide

TECHNOLOGY

Currie-McGhee, Leanne K.

AIDS

104 pp. | Lucent | October, 2008 | Library ISBN 978-1-4205-0078-3 $32.45

(3) YA Hot Topics series. This informative and accessible survey charts the global trajectory of AIDS, from its first appearances in the early 1980s to the present day. Chapters focus on the AIDS stigma; the particular vulnerability of women, children, and poor people; the controversy surrounding abstinence-only sex-ed school programs; and scientific progress toward treatment and a cure. Many photographs and sidebars are included. Reading list, websites. Ind.

Reviewer: Nell Beram