The origins of AIDS, Jacques Pepin
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The origins of AIDS, Jacques Pepin
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eng
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The origins of AIDS
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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1233294298
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Jacques Pepin
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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Summary
It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital of Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central 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 military interventions, urbanisation, 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 perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.--, Provided by publisher
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