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Volume 335:1470-1471 November 7, 1996 Number 19
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Psychological Medicine of HIV Infection

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By José Catalán, Adrian Burgess, and Ivana Klimes, with the collaboration of Brian Gazzard. 300 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. $75. ISBN 0-19-262202-1.

The theme of this year's 11th International AIDS Conference, "One World, One Hope," was amply borne out, for better and for worse, by the presentations. For the first time in years, there was a real feeling of optimism about the potential for treatment, based on early results of new multidrug protocols. At the same time, the epidemiologic data reinforced an awareness of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection as a global problem that is not going away any time soon. An estimated 8500 new infections occur daily. In some developing countries 30 percent of women giving birth are infected with HIV. . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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