
- 356 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- AIDS RESEARCH FOR BEGINNERS
- WHAT HAPPENED IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
- WHAT HAPPENED IN UGANDA AND WASHINGTON AND GENEVA
- THE FRONT LINES
- EPILOGUE - Traditional Medicine
- AUTHOR’S NOTE
- A NOTE ON THE STATISTICS CITED IN THIS BOOK
- ADDITIONAL PRAISE FOR THE INVISIBLE CURE
- About the Author
- APPENDIX: A MAGIC BULLET AFTER ALL?
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- Notes
- Copyright Page