This may be a textbook for nursing students, but I think everyone would find it fairly readable. At the time this book was written, AIDS was mostly a disease of adult men; thus, women and children with the virus were a minority within a minority. This book has more chapters on children than women and I wish the opposite was the case. There is only one chapter on international HIV-positive women and children: this may bother some people since that is the population in which the illness is most rampant. This book has lots of useful facts in it (but remember that it was written a decade ago). It discussed how AIDS affect reproduction, healt care providers, and family structures. People concerned about women and children with AIDS could really employ this as a good reference for educating the public.