Much has happened since the first appearance of AIDS in 1981: it has been identified, studied, and occasionally denied. The virus has shifted host populations and spread globally. Medicine, the social sciences, and world governments have joined forces to combat and prevent the disease. And South Africa has emerged as ground zero for the pandemic.

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List of tables and figures.List of contributors.Foreword.Acknowledgements.1: Introduction.Section One: Psychosocial Issues.2: The Sociocultural Aspects of HIV/AIDS.3: HIV and Women.4: Masculinity and HIV/AIDS.5: HIV and Youth: A Behavioural perspective.6: Infants and Young Children affected by HIV/AIDS.7: Poverty and HIV and AIDS.8: HIV and Stigma in South Africa.Section Two: Prevention and Treatment.9: The Politics and Psychology of AIDS Denialism.10: Local Level Responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa.11: Social Movements and HIV/AIDS in South Africa.12: Approaches to HIV Counselling and Testing: Strengths and Weaknesses, and challenges for the Way Forward.13: Vertical transmission of HIV - Pregnancy and Infant issues.14: HIV/AIDS, nutrition and structural interventions in South Africa: A move in the right direction.15: Strengthening Community Responses to AIDS: Possibilities and Challenges.16: HIV, religion and spirituality.Section Three: Persons Living with HIV/AIDS.17: Experiences of People Living with HIV.18: Positive Prevention: HIV Risk Reduction for People Living with HIV/AIDS.Section Four: New directions in HIV research.19: HIV/AIDS and Persons with Disabilities.20: HIV/AIDS and the Prison System.21: HIV and Circumcision.22: Participation in HIV Vaccine Trials.23: Bridging the Gap between HIV and Mental Health Services in South Africa