"This is an utterly fascinating book. I must admit that it's been growing on me since I read it, the arguments and language reverberating in my mind. Elizabeth Pisani writes with enormous verve and acerbity, her prose alive with anecdote and metaphor," writes Co-Director Stephen Lewis, reviewing Pisani's new book, The Wisdom of Whores, for Canada's Globe and Mail.

Alan Whiteside has just published a short, punchy book appropriately titled HIV and AIDS: A Very Short Introduction. It's now available online for the modest price of $10.00. http://www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/about/

Blurbs on the cover of 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa provide just a small sampling of the superlatives that gush from everyone who reads this extraordinary collection of true stories by Stephanie Nolen, the Toronto Globe and Mail’s much-acclaimed Africa correspondent.

Co-Directors Paula Donovan and Stephen Lewis teamed up to write a review of two new books for the journal “Nature” that begins with the question, “Has the tide turned away from AIDS orthodoxy?” The AIDS Pandemic: The Collision of Epidemiology with Political Correctness by James Chin and The Invisible Cure: AIDS in Africa by Helen Epstein, while “strikingly different in tone and character”, are similar in a way that should give pause.  Both were written by reputable and knowledgeable scientists, and both“recount the global response to the AIDS pandemic with words of recrimination for the United Nations.“