Introduction: Health Communication and AIDS: Setting the Agenda; 1: AIDS: Effective Health Communication; 1: Developing Strategic Communication Campaigns for HIV/AIDS Prevention; 2: Health Communication as Negotiation: The COAST Model and AIDS; 3: The Role of Care Partners in Managing AIDS Patients' Illness: Toward a Triadic Model of Health Care Delivery; 4: The Paradox of Accurate Information Increasing the Fear of AIDS; 5: Responses from the Street: ACT UP and Community Organizing Against AIDS; 2: AIDS: Communication, Education, and the Media; 6: Perceived Control in the Age of AIDS: A Review of Prevention Information in Academic, Popular, and Medical Accounts; 7: AIDS in the Media: Entertainment or Infotainment; 8: Crisis in Communication: Coverage of Magic Johnson's AIDS Disclosure; 3: AIDS: The Cutting Edge of Awareness, Action, and Policy; 9: Freedom of the Press to Cover HIV/AIDS: A Clear and Present Danger?; 10: Communication Disorders in Adults with AIDS; 11: Neurosurgical Professionalism and Care in the Treatment of Patients with Symptomatic AIDS; 12: Adolescents and HIV: Two Decades of Denial; 13: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: AIDS Action 2000 Plan; Afterword Communication and Prevention—They Are All We Have