The Invisible Cure by Helen Epstein

The Invisible Cure

Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa

Helen Epstein, Helen C. Epstein

Picador · Print & ebook · May 27, 2008

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.

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A ground-level account of AIDS in Africa, viewed through medicine, politics, and village life.
Genres
HIV & AIDS, Public Health, African Studies
Published
Picador, May 27, 2008

About this book

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.

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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.

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A ground-level account of AIDS in Africa, viewed through medicine, politics, and village life.

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  • The human and political dimensions of a public health crisis
  • A village-based response that challenges familiar assumptions

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  • Reporting shaped by encounters with patients, doctors, politicians, and aid workers
  • An inquiry spanning medicine, economics, politics, and sociology

Where it sits

HIV & AIDS59%
African Studies34%
Public Health29%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • African History
  • Medicine
  • Disease & Public Health
Authors
Helen Epstein, Helen C. Epstein
Publisher
Picador
Published
May 27, 2008
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
African History