The Invisible Cure : Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa

Epstein, Helen

ISBN 10: 0312427727 / ISBN 13: 9780312427726

Published by Picador, 2008

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Synopsis:

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 than any network of government intervention and international aid, an intuitive response that calls into question many of the fundamental assumptions about the AIDS in Africa.

Written with conviction, knowledge, and insight, The Invisible Cure will change how we think about the worst health crisis of the past century--and indeed about every issue of global public health.

About the Author: HELEN EPSTEIN writes frequently on public health for various publications including The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Magazine. She is a visiting research scholar at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University. She is the author of The Invisible Cure.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Invisible Cure : Why We Are Losing the ...
Publisher: Picador
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Edition: rev Edition.