With more than 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, understanding this disease is crucial. The ways it affects our world and what can be done to prevent it are some of the most important issues of our day. By the time children are in third grade, research shows that as many as 93 percent of them have heard about HIV/AIDS--but what they hear is often inaccurate and frightening.

This series of books sets the record straight; it communicates accurate AIDS-related information to young readers in sensitive, age-appropriate ways, with plenty of color pictures and boxed, "bite-size" information. These books will expand young readers' viewpoints, allowing them to grasp the magnitude of AIDS' influence on the global world--and on their own individual worlds. When it comes to HIV/AIDS, education literally saves lives.