Valerie Stone • Bisola Ojikutu
M. Keith Rawlings • Kimberly Y. Simth
Editors

2009

Twenty-six years after five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia were reported in white gay men, the U.S. faces a mature AIDS epidemic.1 An infectious disorder with profound morbidity and mortality, this epidemic rivals virtually every other infectious disease outbreak in human history – from its impact upon communities, social structures, and health care systems to the disruption of the fabric of daily life.