Martin Foreman

This book argues that the global epidemic is driven by men. Pointing out that it is usually men who determine the circumstances of intercourse, the book suggests that one in four men worldwide have sexual and drug-taking behaviour that places them and their partners at risk from infection by HIV. Thus, as the contributors (from 11 countries in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Eastern Europe) argue, AIDS epidemic cannot be contained until men are persuaded to reassess their traditional concepts of masculinity.

The first section of this book examines the relationship between men‘s actions and AIDS worldwide, the impact of those actions on men and women, and initiatives designed to help men protect themselves and their partners.

The second section, written by journalists from eleven countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, illustrates many different aspects of that relationship - from machismo in Mexico to drug injection in Russia, from men in prison in Brazil to men living with HIV in Thailand, from men as fathers in the Ivory Coast to men who have sex with men in Kenya.

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