Helen Epstein

The Invisible Cure (eBook, ePUB)

Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1993, Helen Epstein, a scientist working with a biotechnology company searching for an AIDS vaccine, moved to Uganda, where she witnessed first-hand the suffering caused by the HIV virus. The Invisible Cure, dramatic, illuminating and beautifully written, recounts the struggle of international health experts, governments and ordinary Africans to understand the devastating spread of HIV in Africa, and traces how their responses to the crisis have changed in light of new medical developments and political realities.

The AIDS epidemic in Africa is uniquely severe. It is partly a consequence of the political, social, and economic upheavals of the past century, which have left millions of Africans adrift in an increasingly globalized world. Their poverty and social dislocation have generated an earthquake in gender relations that has had devastating consequences for the spread of the HIV virus. Epstein argues that there are ways to address this crisis that may be simpler than many people imagine. A deeply affecting story of scientific breakthroughs and false starts, and of the human costs of policymakers' missteps and inaction, The Invisible Cure will change the way we think about AIDS, a disease without precedent.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141901725
• Artikelnr.: 39187401

Autorenporträt

Helen Epstein has written about public health for various publications, including the New York Times magazine, Granta, and the New York Review of Books. She has conducted research on reproductive health and AIDS in Africa for various organizations, including the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation and Human Rights Watch. She obtained a PhD in molecular biology from Cambridge University and an MSc in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.