AEGiS-BKREV: AIDS and Men: Taking Risks or Taking Responsibility?

AIDS and Men: Taking Risks or Taking Responsibility?

St Martin's Press, 175 5th Ave., New York, NY 10010 for Panos Institute and Zed Books of London. 238p., bibliog. ISBN 1-85649-744-5, 1-87067-040-Xpbk. $55.00, $19.95pbk.
edited by Martin Foreman. 1999.

This small book is full of information about AIDS/HIV from around the world. The first section "examines the relationship between men's actions and AIDS around the world, the impact of those actions on men and women and initiatives designed to help men protect themselves and their partners." This is a must read section by everyone from those in grade school to those who have long graduated from college. It points out the inherent dangers in unprotected sex and discusses why so many cultures do not want protected sex because it is not masculine. Peer pressure, ridicule, and rejection come into play in many parts of the world, preventing the success of any and all sex education in some countries.

The second section looks at sex, risks, and responsibility throughout the world, focusing on Mexico, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Russia, Brazil, Malawi, Thailand, Ivory Coast, and Bangladesh. Here one will learn of cultural and social barriers that are beginning to be broken but still are preventing any overall decline in the incidence of HIV. Young men around the world are sexually active and as a result seek out sex in any way they can. Religions preach of the sin of having sex outside of marriage but that does not prevent it from happening. These reports are frightening and show the rest of the world that there is much to be done in the underdeveloped countries. This is a highly recommended book for all academic and research libraries and should be made available throughout the world as a wake-up call to those countries that are still resisting any full scale AIDS education programs with safer sex high on the list of prevention.

Keywords: Behavior, Women, Mexico, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Russia, Brazil, Malawi, Thailand, Ivory Coast, Bangladesh)

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