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Edited by Deborah Cotton and D. Heather Watts. 466 pp. New York, John Wiley, 1997. $89.95. ISBN 0-471-07674-0.

AIDS is now the leading cause of death among women 25 to 44 years of age in urban areas across the United States, including more than a dozen cities in the Northeast, Miami, and Oakland, California. The rate of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections in this country has plateaued in recent years at approximately 50,000 per year, but among women it continues to increase steadily. Other books discuss specific aspects of the HIV epidemic in U.S. women, but this one makes a valuable new contribution. It elucidates the differences between women and men in the natural history of HIV . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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