The present book, Sociocultural Aspects of Family Planning and HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, is a revised and enlarged version of the original manuscript, which given a time lag of more than one decade and a half, tremendously benefitted from the exponential
growth in knowledge on sexual and reproductive health, including HIV and AIDS. The book is presented in eleven chapters, which together make up its 311 pages, excluding 22 preliminary pages. That the book is well-researched is partly borne out by its 28 pages of references as well as its numerous tables, charts, and illustrations. The book addresses two issues of potentially
conflicting interest – rapid population growth and the epidemic of HIV and AIDS. On the surface, the HIV/AIDS epidemic may be looked upon as solving the population control problem. But it is now clear that for large populations such as Nigeria’s it will
take more than the elevated mortality levels arising from the epidemic to make any significant impact on the pace of population growth, apart from the social and demographic unacceptability of allowing high death rates as a means of achieving population
reduction.