Synopses & Reviews
Many people believe that AIDS has moved from being the "gay men's disease" it was in the 1980s and early 1990s to being a disease that affects mainly people in the developing world. While the numbers of deaths in the developing world do indeed dwarf those in the industrialized world, when people can now extend their lives for many decades through anti retroviral drugs two important facts still remain: I here is no cure for AIDS, and unprotected sex can kill. The public health messages of the 1990s have been forgotten as a new generation of young men and women throughout North America and Europe are returning to sex without condoms, resulting in an increase in HIV numbers after several years of decline. And senior citizens are contracting the disease they thought was the province of other age groups, other cultures. Dr. Monica Sweeney is on the front line of the fight against AIDS both as a member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and as a doctor working in the heart of the inner city at the Bedford-Stuyvesant Health Center, Inc. in Brooklyn, New York. She sees every day the effect of HIV and AIDS on families and neighborhoods. Direct and uncompromising. "The Condom Bible focuses on the teahty of human lives and choices. Boldly and honestly, it gives you the facts what condoms are, who makes them, where to get them, and how to use them. Full of fun, quirky facts, "The Condom Bible will not only make you a condom expert but could even save your life.