AIDS and Drug Misuse

HIV and AIDS have brought an unprecedented crisis to all those engaged in the provision of health and social services. Conventional wisdom and old methods have had to be discarded; new problems have called for new information and new skills. This text provides a major evaluation of the challenge of AIDS. An array of contributors, all of whom have international reputations in their field, present a synthesis of the wide variety of issues in this complex debate. The book charts the development of the epidemic, and looks in detail at the different strategies being implemented around the world to try and contain it. It also assesses the implications for future prevention of the spread of HIV among drug injectors.