Until the Cure: Caring for Women with HIV

A collection of essays by doctors, social workers and scholars about the implications of AIDS for women, this focuses professional concern on an important but neglected subject. The perspectives and the approaches vary. In ``Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Infection,'' Kathy M. Sanders, of Massachusetts General Hospital's psychiatry department, surveys the nature of AIDS Dementia Complex and nonorganic psychiatric disorders in female AIDS patients; and in ``Legal Considerations,'' Michele Zavros, project director of the American Bar Association's AIDS Coordination Project, looks at the legal rights of women with AIDS, and the challenges faced by those who are mothers or who have few material resources. Other pieces consider the ``matriarchy'' of female minority AIDS caregivers; the ethics of AIDS for women (e.g., regarding conception); and the history of clinical trials for HIV-infected women. At heart, the book is meant for, as well as written by, health care professionals. But because documentation is scarce--and needed--others could and should read it. (Dec.)