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Piecing the Puzzle: The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa - Softcover

Krotz, Larry

 
9780887557309: Piecing the Puzzle: The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0887557309 ISBN 13: 9780887557309
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press, 2012

Synopsis

In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya's “sexual diseases problem.” That initial invitation led to a groundbreaking international scientific collaboration that would uncover critical pieces in the complex puzzle that became today's HIV/AIDS pandemic.

In Piecing the Puzzle, journalist and documentary filmmaker Larry Krotz chronicles the fascinating history of the pioneering Kenyan, Canadian, Belgian, and American research team that uncovered HIV/AIDS in Kenya, their scientific breakthroughs and setbacks, and their exceptional thirty-year relationship that began a new era of global health collaboration.

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About the Author

Larry Krotz is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and author of six previous books, including The Uncertain Business of Doing Good: Outsiders in Africa. Over the past 25 years he has travelled to a number of African countries, where he produced the documentary film, Searching for Hawa's Secret, and wrote extensively for magazines and newspapers on scientific research and foreign aid projects.

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Publisher
University of Manitoba Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0887557309
ISBN 13 
9780887557309
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
220