The Invisible Cure
Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid. Helen Epstein left her job in the US in 1993 to move to Uganda, where she began work on a test vaccine for HIV. Once there, she met patients, doctors, politicians, and aid workers, and began exploring the problem of AIDS in Africa through the lenses of medicine, politics, economics, and sociology. Amid the catastrophic failure to reverse the epidemic, she discovered a village-based solution that could prove more effective t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4299-2379-8
- EAN: 9781429923798
- Produktnummer: 22463672
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 639 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
- Abbildungen: Includes one map and 19 black-and-white diagrams throughout
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