Some of the pamphlets in this authoritative series will be useful mainly to designers of, and workers in, public-health efforts to control the AIDS epidemic in their own countries and smaller governmental jurisdictions. Four of them should be known and available to individual physicians, nurses, and laboratory technicians responsible for patients and other persons at risk for HIV infection; these are volumes 2, 3, 6, and 7, which cover, respectively, sterilization and disinfection, nursing care of HIV-infected persons, sexual transmission, and AIDS and first aid in occupational settings. The prices for the individual pamphlets are low enough to allow for