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

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS...
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The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa by Epstein, Helen

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

$215.11

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

$215.11
Author: Helen Epstein
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Helen Epstein
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 05/27/2008
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780312427726


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 06/29/2008 pg. 24

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 currently a visiting research scholar at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University.


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