"In our social anthropological research we are uncovering another picture of what science literacy might consist of by asking nonscientists, at all educational levels and from a variety of ethnic and socioeconomic settings, to tell us in their own terms what they know about health and their bodies, in particular about immunity and the immune system."

Learn more about

• Tools for improving science literacy:
  http://www.aaas.org/
• National Center for Science Literacy:
  http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/
• The immune system and AIDS:
  http://www.biology.arizona.edu/immunology/immunology.html