Author
D’Adesky, Anne-Christine.
Title
Moving mountains : the race to treat global AIDS / Anne-Christine D’Adesky.
Published
London ; New York : Verso, 2004.
Format
Book
Description
487 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-449) and index.
Contents
Pt. 1 Introducing the global perspective : Moving mountains -- AIDS and empire I : a brief chronology of recent events -- Brazil’s AIDS model : a global blueprint?
Pt. 2 All around the world : Tipping the scales : India and generic drugs -- Cuba fights AIDS its own way -- HIV medicines comes to rural Haiti -- Two Mexicos : one urban, one rural -- Uganda : sparing the next generation -- Morocco’s bold experiment -- AIDS, apartheid and South Africa : the challenges of survival -- Carletonville : research in the eye of the storm -- Russia’s post-Perestroika pandemic.
Pt.3 Rethinking treatment : AIDS : a new model for global public health.
Pt.4 From Durban to Bangkok : AIDS and empire II : the cost of delay.
Abstract
In dispatches written from around the world, d’Adesky reports on the global effort to provide life-saving medicines and care to 40 million people living with HIV and AIDS in resource-poor countries, the great majority in sub-Saharan Africa. She analyzes the obstacles to providing universal access to antiretroviral drugs whose cost has been out of reach to millions, and exposes the underlying and often competing agendas of donor and recipient governments, funders, activists and individuals struggling to survive. In in-depth field reports from countries including Cuba, Brazil, Russia, Haiti, Mexico, Uganda, South Africa, China and India, she reveals how pilot and national treatment programs are serving as models in settings of abject poverty, underdevelopment and economic and political instability. Looking ahead, she discusses the potential of AIDS treatment programs to bolster prevention efforts and help rebuild shattered nations and economies, and warns of the consequences if we fail.--From publisher description.
ISBN
1844670023 :
Subject
AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention.
AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.
World health.
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