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The Origins of AIDS
2011
Overview
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.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Subject
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- history -- Africa
/ Africa
/ AIDS
/ Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- history -- Africa
/ Doctors
/ Emerging infectious diseases
/ Emerging infectious diseases -- Africa
/ Etiology
/ History
/ History, 20th Century -- Africa
/ HIV
/ HIV Infections -- etiology -- Africa
/ HIV Infections -- history -- Africa
ISBN
9780521186377, 1107006635, 9781107006638, 0521186374
