Presents a chronological selection of Watney's writings from the 1990s, with new contextualising introductory and concluding essays and offers a chronicle of the changing and often confusing course of the epidemic. 'Simon Watney is one of the most brilliant and engaged writers on AIDS in the English speaking world. ... He wants commitment to the battle against HIV and AIDS, gives it wholeheartedly himself, and his prose reverberates with his own total commitment.' - Jeffrey Weeks, South Bank University