100 Questions and Answers About AIDS : A Guide for Young People

by Michael Thomas Ford

Provides up-to-date answers to the most frequently asked questions about AIDS, curing common delusions about the disease, discussing sex safety, explaining HIV testing, and giving advice on coping after finding out your partner has the disease.

202 pages, Library Binding

First published November 1, 1992

About the author

Michael Thomas Ford is the author of more than 75 books in genres ranging from humor to horror, literary fiction to nonfiction. His work for adult readers includes the best-selling novels What We Remember, The Road Home, Changing Tides, Full Circle, Looking for It and Last Summer, and his five essay collections in the "Trials of My Queer Life" series. His novel Lily was a Tiptree Award Longlist title and a finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. He is also the author of the Sickening Adventures series of books featuring popular contestants from RuPaul's Drag Race.

As a writer for young adults he is the author of the novels Suicide Notes, Z, and Love & Other Curses, and under the name Isobel Bird he wrote the popular "Circle of Three" series. His work has been nominated for 14 Lambda Literary Awards, twice winning for Best Humor Book, twice for Best Romance Novel, and once for Best Mystery. He was also nominated for a Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award (for his novel The Dollhouse That Time Forgot).

Reviews

[David Luong · Rating 5 out of 5]

The reason I chose this book is that I will be learning about AIDS in this year's health class, and it is good to learn about it earlier. It stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, and it is a very contagious group of symptoms that is likely to cause the human body to malfunction, and become weak. While reading through this guidebook, multiple questions were asked and it provides a brief answer to the question,and a possible reasoning for that answer. Since I wasn't unable to understand everything, I just focused on the basic questions, and some interesting questions that I feel curious to know more about during class, so that I could refer to them, and have a feedback from my teacher. Although some questions were trivial, a majority are significant in that they are frequently asked as when you go to see the doctor.

Furthermore, the book also mentions about HIV, and how viral-infections in the human body lead to AIDS. Most importantly, an obscure question rises throughout the book: How do you know if you have HIV/AIDS? Accordingly, it states that the only way you can find out is to take a blood-test. In the same way, my doctor gave me this response when I asked him this question.

Overall, I really relished this book due to the fact that it is well-informing and unequivocal. If we are required to read a book that is related to HIV/AIDS, I would definitely recommend this to my friends, and classmates.