''A highly recommended book for all libraries.''    --- AIDS  Book Review Journal, November 1997    ''This book should be used by  researchers and public health providers. The contributors know their  topics, generally write in a succinct manner, and have common sense  suggestions based on thoughtful observation and analysis...this book  provides important documentation of why public health issues must  include attention to power and women's role.''    --- Journal of  Feminist Family Therapy    ''Readable, well-documented, and  humane.''    --- Readings    Although women were understudied  in the early years of the epidemic, research and practice devoted to  understanding and ameliorating the effects of the AIDS epidemic have  begun in recent years. Women and AIDS is the first  comprehensive exploration of the medical and psychosocial concerns  and issues surrounding women living with HIV/AIDS. Contributors  address the biomedical aspects of the disease, stress and coping  factors, reproductive and childcare issues, access to care, needs of  special populations such as drug-using women and adolescents, and  policy recommendations. Researchers and students in psychology,  public health, medicine, nursing, sociology, women's studies, and  social work will appreciate this reference.

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