The Invisible Cure
Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS
Recommended by Arthur Ammann, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #49 in Public Health
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, but... more
The AIDS epidemic in Africa is uniquely severe, but... more
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Arthur Ammann Some of these communities affected by HIV have their own ways of dealing with problems and are prevented from doing so…because of…academic colonialism. (Source)
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