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| Title | : | AIDS Between Science and Politics |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (839 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231166265 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-04 |
| Language | : | French |
He is a former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, the founding executive director of UNAIDS, and co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, and former president of the International AIDS Society. He has published more than 500 scientific papers and articles and sixteen books, including his memoirs, No Time To Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses.Laurence Garey is an anatomist, former member the Co
AIDS thrust health into national and international politics where, he argues, it rightly belongs. Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. As he struggled to get ahead of the disease, Piot found science does little good when it operates independently of politics and economics, and politics is worthless if it rejects scientific evidence and respect for human rights.Piot describes how the epidemic altered global attitudes toward sexuality, the character of the doctor-patient relationship, the influence of civil society in international relations, and traditional partisan divides. Instead, he explains how to continue to reduce the incidence of the disease to minute levels through both prevention and treatme
(Nature)Highly Recommended. Yet this is precisely what AIDS Between Science and Politics accomplishes, appealing equally to AIDS experts and novices. More broadly, it offers lessons and interesting anecdotes useful in the response to Ebola and indeed to every challenge in global health and development. (CHOICE)It is quite a task to write a history of the emergence and response to HIV/AIDS around the world and to do so in an accessible fashion. (Claire Laurier Decoteau Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society) . And who is better placed to address the multitude of issues pertaining to HI
"Peter Piot does not disappoint in concisely and thoroughly providing the facts on this" according to Leisa Hirtz. From the foremost expert on HIV/AIDS, the political landscape internationally, Peter Piot does not disappoint in concisely and thoroughly providing the facts on this pandemic that still claims so many lives internationally.
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