AIDS What Does It Mean to You Author:Margaret O. Hyde, Elizabeth H. Forsyth Explores the nature of AIDS, its causes, ways of spreading, and effects on the lives of its victims, and discusses how misunderstanding of the disease may complicate the situation as it continues to spread. — From School Library Journal: — Grade 7 Up About 20% of Hyde and Forsyth's 1986 title has been revised, and the updated book includes rep... more »orts and statistics from late 1986, including the Surgeon General's Report on AIDS and the report of the National Academy of Sciences. Michael Callen's heartbreaking 1983 account of the plight of an AIDS victim is repeated, with an encouraging 1986 report that he is alive and helping others through the National Association of People With AIDS. Late research on HTLV-IV is reported. While this updating is effective, the prose still suffers from many qualifiers and too much use of the passive voice, making the reading lackluster and harder to follow than necessary. Charts and maps are not always placed with the corresponding text. Glossary, index, list of AIDS hotlines, and support groups are appended. Sexual knowledge is assumed, and terms such as "anal intercourse'' are not in the glossary or index. The Silversteins' AIDS: Deadly Threat (Enslow, 1986) is better written, but is outdated by this revision. Anne Osborn, Riverside Public Library, Calif.
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