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(Series in Health and Social Justice.) Edited by Paul Farmer, Margaret Connors, and Janie Simmons. 473 pp. Monroe, Me., Common Courage Press, 1996. $19.95. ISBN 1-56751-074-4.

Strong theses make good books if the author undertakes the challenge with force and discipline. When the task at hand is not well executed, the reader is left with a sense of disappointment heightened by the sense of a promise unfulfilled. Such is the case with Women, Poverty, and AIDS. Part of a planned series to be produced under the aegis of the Institute for Health and Social Justice, this book lays down a challenge to conventional approaches to the AIDS pandemic: "Poverty and gender inequality are two reasons why the fastest-growing epidemics are among women, who in some regions . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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