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Title:
The invisible cure : why we are losing the fight against AIDS in Africa / Helen Epstein.
Author:
Epstein, Helen, 1961-
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Picador, 2007.
Call Number:
RA643.86.A35 E674 2007
ISBN:
9780312427726
Physical Description:
xxvii, 324 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Contents:
AIDS research for beginners. The outsiders ; The mysterious origins of HIV ; Why are HIV rates so high in Africa? ; The African earthquake -- What happened in southern Africa. Gold rush ; A president, a crisis, a tragedy ; AIDS, Inc. ; Why don't they listen? -- What happened in Uganda and Washington and Geneva. The invisible cure ; Forensic science ; God and the fight against AIDS ; When foreign aid is an ATM -- The front lines. The lost children of AIDS ; Wartime ; The underground economy of AIDS -- Traditional medicine -- A magic bullet after all?.
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