book on AIDS?

Hey blogging community,
I’m trying to find a good book to read on the AIDS epidemic. I want to learn about issues in Africa- what are the trends, what is being done, what still needs to happen? If you have any book recommendations, send them my way! Thanks all!

finals thermometer

no i am not trying to raise $2000 (but if you would like to raise $2000 for me i would not turn it down)
I lived with the most amazing girls when I went to UW-Madison. We worked hard to support each other in school because we were all fairly crazy- we all were really good [...]

how far will we go?

Are we going to let people starve so that our agriculture economy can grow? Sure sounds like it…
This is quite an interesting article (orginially from the NYTimes), worth reading and weighing in on. click here
How much is our economic prosperity worth in our country, that we are willing to let others starve? This is sickening [...]

cartwheels

Do you ever feel the urge to do a cartwheel? Some days I do- like today. It doesn’t even feel like spring outside (it’s below 40 degrees right now here in Chicago) but there is green grass and no snow and I feel like doing cartwheels. I’m not even good at cartwheels… they are never [...]

holy week- suffering

What is suffering? Before my small group did the stations of the cross (‘holy week- monday’ post) I asked them when they had last suffered… or seen suffering. A few could name times they had suffered, several thought they had never suffered, and all of them could remember a time that they had seen suffering.It [...]

holy week- monday

Even though it is now wednesday, i’m going to write about monday.
I haven’t really reflected much on holy week since I became a Christian. Growing up in the Catholic church this week was a huge week. I remember the palm processional on palm sunday (this was so awesome to me when i was a kid). [...]