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Title: Black Death : AIDS in Africa by Susan Hunter ISBN: 1-4039-6244-8 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Summary: A MUST-READ for anyone interested in the HIV / AIDS crisis
Comment: In the first few pages of her book, Susan Hunter explains that HIV / AIDS is the first new disease on our planet since the 1400s; it is the leading infectious disease threat in the world today, outpacing tuberculosis and malaria by 2:1. It is the first disease to be considered a global threat to both national and international security. By 2010, the global human death toll from this disease will be higher than the COMBINED casualties of WWI, WWII, the Civil War, the Bolshevik Revolution, the first Chinese Communist War, the Spanish Civil War, the Taiping Rebellion, the Great War in La Plata and the partition of India. Every 18 months, more people die from HIV / AIDS than during the Holocaust. In some parts of Africa, they literally are running out of land to bury the bodies.
Ms. Hunter, with her years of experience working with the UN on Africa, is in a unique position to offer an assessment of the effects of this disease on that continent as well as predictions of its spread globally.
In the United States, many have become complacent about HIV / AIDS, believing that this is a disease which can be controlled with a few pills -- and as a result, HIV / AIDS infection is on the rise in the U.S. once again. Ms. Hunter's descriptions bring the realities of HIV / AIDS back into sharp, painful focus. This remains a terminal illness: in the U.S., HIV / AIDS mortality is back on the rise, as many develop complications with / from their medication treatments.
Ms. Hunter's book reminds us that if we do not take action in the areas of disease prevention, education, and access to basic health care, we will face a Holocaust each year as a result of HIV / AIDS. Even in the U.S. where many have access to the medications, HIV / AID has become the leading cause of death among 18-34 year olds, as well as the third leading cause of death AMONG ALL AGE GROUPS in the U.S.
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Title: Global AIDS: Myths and Facts, Tools for Fighting the AIDS Pandemic by Alexander Irwin, Joyce Millen, Dorothy Fallows ISBN: 0896086739 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis by Emma Guest ISBN: 0745320759 Publisher: Pluto Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: AIDS in the Twenty-First Century : Disease and Globalization by Tony Barnett, Alan Whiteside ISBN: 140390006X Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 16 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The aWAKE Project : Uniting against the African AIDS Crisis by Various Contributors ISBN: 0849944090 Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: HIV & AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology by Ezekiel Kalipeni, Susan Craddock, Joseph R. Oppong, Jayati Ghosh ISBN: 0631223576 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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