One New Humanity: the Challenge of AIDS

Anne Bayley SPCK, £9.99, pp 330 ISBN 0 281 04923 8

“How does a society with a history of violence, buckling under the pressure of poverty and land scarcity, react to the news that an unknown third of its members carry the virus?” In Rwanda, with a population prevalence of HIV among the highest in the world, a survey in 1992 in a military camp found that 70% of the soldiers were more afraid of HIV and AIDS than of being at war. The cumulative incidence of HIV infections in Africa (over 11 million) and increasingly in Asia (over 3 million) is far …