Laughing in the Face of AIDS: A Surgeon's Personal Battle

While performing surgery in 1985 Dr. Ed Rozar was infected with HIV.

Discovery of his disease has changed life irreversibly for the young physician, his wife, and five children.

Laughing in the Face of AIDS...
• illustrates the power of God in the face of adversity..... Nearing the peak of his career, Ed had virtually everything taken from him. Yet he was able to realize how much more he was given.
• calls us to examine our relationships with our own family members. What are our priorities? How do we respond to those who depend on us? Do we really share our love with them?
• challenges us as Christians to respond to the AIDS epidemic as Christ would have us. We are summoned to think more seriously about a disease that has entered the church and is spreading relentlessly across America, a disease that can no longer be ignored by the body of Christ.
From the Foreword by W. Shepherd Smith President, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy

I first met Dr. Ed Rozar when he traveled to Washington to testify before Congress on HIV-related legislation. I was struck by his commitment to truth and his courage to stand for the principles we physicians know to be correct. Yet even more impressive is the candor and the honesty he expresses in this book about the challenges he and his family faced after the discovery of his HIV infection. Laughing in the Face of AIDS is an inspiration.
Robert R. Redfield, M.D.
Chief of Retroviral Research, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research