"AIDS in the 21st Century" - Book review

I have just read "AIDS in the Twenty-First Century, Disease and Globalisation" by Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside, (Palgrave Macmillan, UK 2002) and I am writing to recommend it. It is starkly clear and eminently readable. Facts, figures and stories with which each of us are familiar are juxtaposed in new and graphic ways, to powerful effect.

Particularly of interest is the grounding in African research, and the chapter "Why Africa?" It is a "must-read" for all of us. Further, it should be put into the hands of as many decision-makers, elected officials and heads of corporations as possible. Its message is enlightening and obvious. This book will succeed in causing a major increase in awareness and action.

Written by hard-nosed economists who back up each statement with solid and wide research, it is enlivened by "stiff-upper-lip humour" and it does not hesitate to ask "What is the cost of a cuddle foregone?"

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