Chapter ONE: The Global Picture HIV and AIDS - Means of transmission - The extent of the epidemic - Myths that miss the mark - Patterns of infection
Chapter TWO: How are Women at Risk? How risky is risky? - The mechanics of sexual transmission - Co-factors for sexual transmission - Non-sexual transmission - Who, me? Percieved versus actual risk
Chapter THREE: A Question of Choice? Sexual behaviour and choice - Negotiating safer sex - The power to choose - Cultural constraints on choice - The poverty factor
Chapter FOUR: HIV infection, Reproduction and Motherhood HIV disease in women - Does pregnancy affect an HIV-positive woman? - Mother-to-child transmission - To test or not to test? - Childbearing choice - Living with HIV
Chapter FIVE: HIV disease in Infants Sources of infection - Detecting infant infection - Disease progression in children - Treatment for infected children - The ethics of experimental drugs for children
Chapter SIX: Who Cares, Who Pays Women who care - How can you turn your back? - Family dilemmas - South and North - AIDS orphans - A different approach: fostering in the United States - The cost of care - A new partnership: health workers and family carers
Chapter SEVEN: AIDS Prevention and the Status of Women Participation - Communication: woman to woman - Strategies for change: control versus empowerment - Men have sex too - New priorities: women speak out
ÆGiS is made possible through unrestricted educational grants from Boehringer Ingelheim, the John M. Lloyd Foundation, the National Library of Medicine, and donations from user's like you. This document is part of the history of the AIDS pandemic; Its purpose is to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between you and your doctor.