BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. Córmac Ó Gráda
Famine: A Short History Brian P. Cooper
Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the Population Question in England, 1798–1859 Richard Alba
Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America Onn Winckler
Arab Political Demography: Population Growth, Labor Migration and Natalist Policies
Revised and expanded second edition SHORT REVIEWS
by John Bongaarts, Eric P. Green, Susan Greenhalgh, Geoffrey McNicoll Cai Fang and Du Yang (eds .)
The China Population and Labor Yearbook, Volume 1: The Approaching Lewis Turning Point and Its Policy Implications Jessica Cohen and William Easterly (eds .)
What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small Bjørn Lomborg (ed .)
Global Crises, Global Solutions. Second edition. Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development
Pensions at a Glance 2009: Retirement‐income Systems in OECD Countries United Nations Population Division
Completing the Fertility Transition, Population Bulletin of the United Nations, Special Issue Nos. 48/49 2002 World Bank
World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change Tiantian Zheng
Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China: Gender Relations, HIV/AIDS, and Nationalism     

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Books reviewed in this article: Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar , Renu Dube , and Reena Dube Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History Charles Blackorby , Walter Bossert , and David Donaldson Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics Josef Gugler (ed .) World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality Panel on Urban Population Dynamics , National Research Council , M. R. Montgomery , R. Stren , B. Cohen , and H. E. Reed (eds .) Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World UNAIDS/WHO AIDS, Epidemic Update: December 2005 The World Bank Improving Health, Nutrition, and Population Outcomes in Sub‐Saharan Africa: The Role of the World Bank     

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Books reviewed in this article: Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor Ester Boserup, My Professional Life and Publications 1929–1998 Joachim von Braun, Tesfaye Tekxu, and Patrick Webb, Famine in Africa: Causes, Responses, and Prevention John Brotchie, Peter Newton, Peter Hall, and John Dickey (eds.), East West Perspectives on 21st Century Urban Development: Sustainable Eastern and Western Cities in the New Millennium Alex de Sherbinin and Victoria Dompka (eds.), Water and Population Dynamics: Case Studies and Policy Implications Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs: Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields Peter H. Gleick, The World's Water 1998–1999: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg, and Marc A. Stern (eds.), Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century Patricia W. Lunneborg, The Chosen Lives of Childfree Men Thomas Gale Moore, Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Global Warming United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1998 Revision. Volume I: Comprehensive Tables; Volume II: The Sex and Age Distribution of the World Population US Agency for International Development and US Department of Commerce, World Population Profile: 1998, with a Special Chapter Focusing on HIV I AIDS in the Developing World     

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Books reviewed in this article: American Economic Association , Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, New York, January 3–5 1999 Katherine Betts , The Great Divide: Immigration Politics in Australia C. Y. Cyrus Chu , Population Dynamics: A New Economic Approach Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson , The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , World Disasters Report 1998 Augustine J. Kposowa , The Impact of Immigration on the United States Economy B. Lindsay Lowell (ed.) , Foreign Temporary Workers in America: Policies That Benefit the U.S. Economy Christopher J. L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez (eds.) , Health Dimensions of Sex and Reproduction: The Global Burden of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, HIV, Maternal Conditions, Perinatal Disorders, and Congenital Abnormalities Jack Parsons , Human Population Competition: A Study of the Pursuit of Power Through Julian L. Simon , Economics Against the Grain World Bank , Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1998     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Stephen Castles and Raúl Delgado Wise (eds .)
Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South Carolyn L. Hsu
Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China Ezekiel Kalipeni , Susan Craddock , Joseph R. Oppong, and Jayati Ghosh (eds .)
HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology Steffen Kröhnert , Iris Hossman, and Reiner Klingholz
Europe's Demographic Future: Growing Regional Imbalances Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden
Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World Vaclav Smil
Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years Johan Surkyn , Patrick Deboosere, and Jan Van Bavel (eds .)
Demographic Challenges for the 21st Century: A State of the Art in Demography Zeng Yi , Dudley L. Poston , Jr. , Denese Ashbaugh Vlosky, and Danan Gu (eds .)
Healthy Longevity in China: Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this articles: Paul Collier The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It Michael J. Rosenfeld The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions, Same‐Sex Unions, and the Changing American Family Wolfgang Lutz , Rudolf Richter , and Chris Wilson (EDS.) The New Generations of Europeans: Demography and Families in the Enlarged European Union Laura L. Lovett Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890–1938 Michel Foucault Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–78 SHORT REVIEWS Sudhir Anand , Fabienne Peter , and Amartya Sen (EDS.) Public Health, Ethics, and Equity James Chin The AIDS Pandemic: The Collision of Epidemiology with Political Correctness Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham (EDS.) Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy Wayne A. Cornelius AND Jessa M. Lewis (EDS.) Impacts of Border Enforcement on Mexican Migration: The View from Sending Communities Rashid Hassan , Robert Scholes , and Neville Ash (EDS.) Ecosystems and Human Well‐being: Volume 1, Current State and Trends Matthias Koch , Claus Harmer , and Florian Coulmas Trilingual Glossary of Demographic Terminology: English‐Japanese‐German/ Japanese‐English‐German/German‐Japanese‐English Ian Pool , Arunachalam Dharmalingam , and Janet Sceats The New Zealand Family from 1840: A Demographic History     

PrEP Awareness in the Context of HIV/AIDS Conspiracy Beliefs Among Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino MSM in Three Urban US Cities

ABSTRACT

We examined HIV conspiracy beliefs and PrEP awareness in a convenience sample of minority MSM. Participants in three cities completed a behavioral self-assessment on sociodemographics, PrEP awareness, and HIV/AIDS conspiracy beliefs. HIV/AIDS conspiracy beliefs were more common among Black than Latino MSM (58% vs. 42%, p < .05), and among younger men than older men (age 18–29 (50%), 30–39 (22%), 40+ (28%); p < .05). PrEP awareness co-occurred with conspiracy belief less (37%) than with non-belief (63%, p < .05), persisting in multivariable regression (aOR = 0.52, 95% CI = 0.38–0.71). This relationship suggests that current HIV care and prevention messaging is either inaccessible or not credible to some minority subpopulations.     

SHORT REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Majid Ezzati , Alan D. Lopez , Anthony Rodgers, and Christopher J. L. Murray (eds. ) Comparative Quantification of Health Risks: Global and Regional Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risk Factors Terence H. Hull (ed. ) People, Population, and Policy in Indonesia Gavin W. Jones and Mehtab S. Karim (eds .) Islam, the State and Population Policy Sarah Michael Undermining Development: The Absence of Power among Local NGOs in Africa Lisa Smyth Abortion and Nation: The Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Ireland United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and United Nations Population Fund The New Demographic Regime: Population Challenges and Policy Responses Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed .) European Migration: What Do We Know?     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles. Philippe Legrain Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them Scott Forbes A Natural History of Families Tyrene White China's Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949‐2005 Renzo Derosas and Frans van Poppel (eds .) Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World Robert E. Goodin and Charles Tilly (eds. ) The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis J. Richard Harrison and Glenn R. Carroll Culture and Demography in Organizations Michael Hoefer , Nancy Rytina , and Christopher Campbell Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2005 Sally Engle Merry Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice Stephen Moses , James F. Blanchard , Han Kang , Faran Emmanuel , Sushena Reza Paul , Marissa L. Becker , David Wilson , and Mariam Claeson AIDS in South Asia: Understanding and Responding to a Heterogeneous Epidemic William F. Ruddiman Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate     

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Books reviewed in this article: Max Essex, Souleymane Mboup, Phyllis J. Kanki, Richard G. Marlink, and Sheila D. Tlou (eds.) AIDS in Africa, Second Edition Virginie Guiraudon and Christian Joppke (eds.) Controlling a New Migration World Anke Niehof and Firman Lubis (eds.) Two Is Enough: Family Planning in Indonesia under the New Order 1968–1998 Donald T. Rowland Demographic Methods and Concepts Thomas Scharping Birth Control in China, 1949–2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development Nelly P. Stromquist Education in a Globalized World: The Connectivity of Economic Power, Technology, and Knowledge United Nations World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision Yunxiang Yan Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. How to Save a Crowded Planet: A Review Essay Review of Jeffrey D. Sachs, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. Matthew Connelly Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population Review Symposium: Review by John Cleland Matthew Connelly Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population Review Symposium: Review by Malcolm Potts Matthew Connelly Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population Review Symposium: Review by Dennis Hodgson Arland Thornton , William G. Axinn, and Yu Xie Marriage and Cohabitation Isabella Aboderín Intergenerational Support and Old Age in Africa Robert Engelman More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want SHORT REVIEWS by John Bongaarts, Susan Greenhalgh, Geoffrey McNicoll, Adam Weiner Daniela Del Boca and Cécile Wetzels (eds .) Social Policies, Labour Markets and Motherhood: A Comparative Analysis of European Countries Marito Garcia and Jean Fares (eds .) Youth in Africa's Labor Market Alan D. Lopez , Colin D. Mathers , Majid Ezzati , Dean T. Jamison , and Christopher J. L. Murray Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors James Raymer and Frans Willekens (eds .) International Migration in Europe: Data, Models and Estimates Lisa Ann Richey Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics United Nations World Economic and Social Survey 2007: Development in an Ageing World World Health Organization WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008: The MPOWER Package     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles: Taking Stock of Population Studies: A Review Essay Review of Graziella Caselli, Jacques Vallin, and Guillaume Wunsch (eds.) Demography: Analysis and Synthesis Contesting the Cause and Severity of the Black Death: A Review Essay Review of Ole J. Benedictow, The Black Death, 1346–1353: The Complete History Saul Halfon The Cairo Consensus: Demographic Surveys, Women's Empowerment, and Regime Change in Population Policy Helen Epstein The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS SHORT REVIEWS Andrea Cornwall , Elizabeth Harrison, and Ann Whitehead (eds.) Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung The Foreign‐Born Population of the United States: 1850 to 2000 Claude Got , Patricia Delhomme, and Sylvain Lassarre More Could Be Done to Prevent Road Deaths in France Devesh Kapur and John Mc Hale Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World Esther Katz (ed.) The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger. Volume 2: Birth Control Comes of Age, 1928–1939 Ça?lar Özden and Maurice Schiff (eds.) International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain United Nations Population Fund State of World Population 2007: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth     

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Books reviewed in this article: Chris Beyrer, War in the Blood: Sex, Politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia Caroline H. Bledsoe et al. (eds.), Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World Donald J. Hernandez and Evan Charney (eds)., From Generation to Generation: The Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families Nana Poku and David T. Graham (eds.), Redefining Security: Population Movements and National Security Jyoti Shankar Singh, Creating a New Consensus on Population Jael Silliman and Ynestra King (eds.), Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development; A Project of the Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment Michael S. Teitelbaum and Jay Winter, A Question of Numbers: High Migration, Low Fertility, and the Politics of National Identity United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Population Monitoring 1997 Anthony Young, Land Resources: Now and for the Future     

The United Nations on the Demographic Impact of the AIDS Epidemic

A report prepared by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and released in Geneva on 27 June 2000 (just prior to the XIIIth International AIDS Conference held in Durban, South Africa) updates estimates of the demographic impact of the epidemic. It characterizes AIDS in the new millennium as presenting “a grim picture with glimmers of hope”—the latter based on the expectation that national responses aimed at preventing and fighting the disease are in some places becoming more effective. According to the report, which emphasizes the considerable statistical weaknesses of its global estimates, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in 1999 was 34.3 million (of which 33.0 million were adults and 1.3 million were children under age 15; slightly less than half of the adults affected, 15.7 million, were women). Deaths attributed to AIDS in 1999 amounted to 2.8 million, bringing the total since the beginning of the epidemic to 18.8 million. These figures represent moderate upward revisions of earlier UN estimates shown in the Documents section of PDR 25, no. 4. The revised estimate of the number of persons newly infected with HIV in 1999 is, in contrast, slightly lower: 5.4 million, of which 4.7 million were adults and 2.3 million were women. An excerpt from the 135‐page Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic, focusing on countries in the worst‐affected area, sub‐Saharan Africa, is reproduced below. (Figures shown have been renumbered.)     

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Books reviewed in this article: Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties Human Security Centre Human Security Report 2005: War and Peace in the 21st Century Jennifer Johnson ‐Hanks Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis Landis Mac Kellar , Tatiana Ermolieva , David Horlacher , and Leslie Mayhew The Economic Impacts of Population Ageing in Japan Patrick Manning Migration in World History Dudley L. Poston , Jr ., Che ‐Fu Lee , Chiung ‐Fang Chang , Sherry L. Mc Kibben , and Carol S. Walther (eds ). Fertility, Family Planning, and Population Policy in China Warren C. Robinson and Fatma H. El ‐Zanaty The Demographic Revolution in Modern Egypt Tukufu Zuberi , Amson Sibanda , and Eric O. Udjo (eds .) The Demography of South Africa     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles. John F. Kantner and Andrew Kantner The Struggle for International Consensus on Population and Development World Bank World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation Lyla M. Hernandez and Dan G. Blazer (eds .) Genes, Behavior, and the Social Environment: Moving Beyond the Nature/NurtureDebate. World Bank Global Economic Prospects 2007: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization Daniel Jordan Smith A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria Ian Bannon and Maria C. Correia (eds .) The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development John Broome Weighing Lives Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations The State of Food and Agriculture: Agricultural Trade and Poverty: Can Trade Work for the Poor? John Glad Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty‐First Century United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report 2006. Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis     

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Lester R. Brown Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble Paul A. David and Mark Thomas (eds .) The Economic Future in Historical Perspective Sarah Earle and Gayle Letherby (eds .) Gender, Identity and Reproduction: Social Perspectives Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future Wolfgang Lutz , Warren C. Sanderson, and Sergei Scherbov (eds .) The End of Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development Maura I. Toro -Morn and Marixsa Alicea (eds .) Migration and Immigration: A Global View United Nations , Population Division World Fertility Report: 2003 Adam Wagstaff and Mariam Claeson The Millennium Development Goals for Health: Rising to the Challenges     

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Books reviewed in this article: Helen Macbeth and Paul Collinson (eds.) Human Population Dynamics: Cross‐Disciplinary Perspectives Jane Menken, Ann K. Blanc, and Cynthia B. Lloyd (eds.) Training and Support of Developing‐Country Population Scientists: A Panel Report Erin Phelps, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., and Anne Colby (eds.) Looking at Lives: American Longitudinal Studies of the Twentieth Century Stephen H. Schneider, Armin Rosencranz, and John O. Niles (eds.) Climate Change Policy: A Survey United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Statistical Yearbook 2001: Refugees, Asylum‐seekers and Other Persons of Concern—Trends in Displacement, Protection and Solutions World Bank World Development Report 2003. Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World: Transforming Institutions, Growth, and Quality of Life World Health Organization World Health Report 2002: Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life     

BOOK REVIEWS

John M. BarryThe Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History Jacqueline Scott, Judith Treas, and Martin Richards (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families Brígida García, Richard Anker, and Antonella Pinnelli (eds.) Women in the Labour Market in Changing Economies: Demographic Issues Samuel P. HuntingtonWho Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity Herbert S. KleinA Population History of the United States Jean Elisabeth PedersenLegislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater, and Republican Politics, 1870–1920 Peter SingerOne World: The Ethics of Globalization Jagdish BhagwatiIn Defense of Globalization Vanessa L. FongOnly Hope: Coming of Age Under China's One‐Child Policy Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka (eds.) On the Move: Women in Rural‐to‐Urban Migration in Contemporary China Peter S. HellerWho Will Pay? Coping with Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long‐Term Fiscal Challenges Phillip LongmanThe Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do About It William PetersenFrom Persons to People: Further Studies in the Politics of Population Leo Suryadinata, Evi Nurvidya Arifin, and Aris AnantaIndonesia's Population: Ethnicity and Religion in a Changing Political Landscape United Nations Human Settlements ProgrammeThe Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Johann Peter Süßmilch , L'Ordre divin dans les changements de l'espèce humaine, démontrépar la naissance, la mart et la propagation de celle-ci. Translation by Jean-Marc Rohrbasser of Die gottliche Ordnung in den Veränderungen des menschlichen Geschlechts, aus der Geburt, dem Tode und der Fortpflanzung desselben erwiesen [The divine order in the transformations of the human race as demonstrated through birth, death, and the multiplication of the same] Garrett Harden , The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia Thomas Homer-Dixon and Jessica Blitt (eds.) , Ecoviolence: Links Among Environment, Population, and Security Thomas F. Homer-Dixon , Environment, Scarcity, and Violence Nancy Shoemaker , American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century Yves Péron, Hélène Desrosiers, Heather Juby, Évelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk, Céline Le Bourdais, Nicole Marcil-Gratton, and Jaël Mongeau , Canadian Families at the Approach of the Year 2000