Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS

Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS

by Anne - Christined ' Adesky (Author)

Synopsis

In despatches written from villages and cities around the world, Anne-christine d'Askey reports on the greatest challenge facing us today: the global effort to provide life-saving medicines and care to millions living with HIV and AIDS in resource-poor countries.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 30 Jun 2006

ISBN 10: 1844675432
ISBN 13: 9781844675432

Media Reviews
D'Adesky clearly knows her way around this world, and she provides convincing testimony about the social and political challenges that this epidemic has exposed so starkly in many countries. -- New England Journal of Medicine Indispensable for anyone trying to stop the global AIDS epidemic - or who wants to learn its searing lessons. - Mark Schoofs, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Village Voice series on AIDS in Africa Moving Mountains should be required reading for anyone who wants to know how history's largest infectious killer of young adults could spread untrammelled across five continents - Paul Farmer, author of Pathologies of Power
Author Bio
Anne-christine d'Adesky is an award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker. Her AIDS documentary, Pills, Profits and Protest is available on DVD.