Title: Hunter's other book is better
Review: The author appears to not have known what kind of book she wanted this to be and opted, unfortunately, for a brief history of Asia, going back centuries, instead of a tightly packed account of the killer disease in the world's most populated continent. Hunter's previous work, the excellent Black Death: AIDS in Africa, provided readers with an armful of information about AIDS, WHO, treatment, government policies, etc. The mission of this book was to focus on the feminine perspective, and provide some personal insights from infected people. In that respect, it was helpful. The bulk of the text, however, literally recounts dozens of pages of political and social history of minimal pertinence to either AIDS or other diseases generally, taking `background' information to an unnecessary extreme. This book would have been far better with these parts edited out, even at the cost of producing a much thinner volume
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