Publisher's Synopsis
Written by leading investigators in epidemiological, behavioral and biomedical research, this volume explores the relationships among alcohol consumption, HIV infection and AIDS.;Reporting on recent research evidence regarding alcohol's dual role in acquiring HIV infection and the development of AIDS, this book focuses on two major areas of concern: the substantial relationship between drinking, high-risk sexual behaviour and;AIDS, revealed through epidemiological and behavioural studies of homosexual and heterosexual populations, as well as adolescents and specific racial and ethnic subgroups and the full spectrum of ongoing biomedical studies of the direct alcohol effect on cellular and humoral immune response and the interaction between medical complications of alcoholism and HIV infection.
