AIDS & Science explains the science of the identification, treatment, and prevention of AIDS. This vitally important new book takes the reader through the initial discovery of the first AIDS/HIV cases in 1981. It also thoroughly covers today's various forms of treatment of the disease and the methods used to help prevent new cases of HIV and AIDS, including education in schools and through the media. The book goes on to explore the two decades of global research efforts to discover ways to prevent HIV/AIDS altogether, including the frustrating attempts to invent an AIDS vaccine.