It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how urbanization, prostitution, and large-scale colonial medical campaigns intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential new perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learnt if we are to avoid provoking another pandemic in the future.
The Origins of AIDS
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Author: Pepin, Jacques
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780521186377
Details:
Author: Pepin, Jacques
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 310
Release Date: 17-10-2011
Part Number: 7 Maps; 2 Halftones, unspecified; 22 Lin
Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 0.8 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780521186377
