EVERY 17 SECONDS: A Global Perspective on...

EVERY 17 SECONDS: A Global Perspective on the AIDS Crisis by Brian Weil (Aperture: $24.95; 108 pp., illustrated, paperback original). The book’s title echoes the terrifying statistic that one person becomes infected with HIV every 17 seconds, and Weil’s spare text and gritty photographs present a grim mosaic of the pandemic’s progress in Asia, Africa and North America. Black South African mine workers who have been forcibly separated from their wives for months are deported if they test HIV-positive. Infants waste away in American hospitals. In Thailand, 10% of the population may be at risk due to prostitution and heroin addiction. Weil’s bleak portrait underscores the need for widespread preventative action against this insidious virus.