HIV/AIDS

Kathy S. Stolley is an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, VA. She is the author of Greenwood Press book The Basics of Sociology (2005) and of The Praeger Handbook of Adoption (2006).John E. Glass is a professor of sociology at Collin County Community College, Frisco, TX.

Stolley (sociology and women's and gender studies, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk) and Glass (sociology, Collin County Community College, Texas) contribute a volume on the retroviral disease to the series providing general readers and non-specialist students a basic foundation in topics and issues in medicine and health. After summarizing the currentmedical, epidemiological, and public health perspectives on HIV/AIDS, they discuss such issues as policy responses popular culture, adolescents and young adults, drug users, and prisons. A chronology appears in a final section along with texts of some primary documents and a directory of organizations.

• Series ForewordIntroductionPart I: Overview1 Overview of HIV and AIDS2 HIV/AIDS Prevalence3 Medical Research on HIV/AIDS4 Prevention, Education, and TestingPart II: Issues Surrounding HIV/AIDS5 Social Perceptions of HIV/AIDS6 Social Action on HIV/AIDS7 Policy Responses to HIV/AIDS8 Human Rights and HIV/AIDS9 Popular Culture and HIV/AIDS10 Pediatric HIV/AIDS11 HIV/AIDS among Adolescents and Young Adults12 HIV/AIDS and Older Adults13 Racial/Ethnic Inequality and HIV/AIDS14 The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Community and HIV/AIDS15 Drug Users and HIV/AIDS16 Prisons and HIV/AIDSPart III: Further InformationA HIV/AIDS Timeline: A Chronology of Significant EventsB Primary DocumentsC Directory of OrganizationsGlossaryFurther ReadingIndex