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

Name: Invisible Cure Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
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ISBN: 9780312427726

ISBN-10: 0312427727

ISBN-13: 9780312427726

Edition: 2007

Authors: Helen Epstein

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 nbsp; The Invisible Cureis 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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 5/27/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English