While the world sleeps : writing from the first twenty years of the global AIDS plague / edited by Chris Bull.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bull, Chris, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

Physical Description:

xxiv, 421 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

AIDS, while the world sleeps

Place of Publication:

New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2003]

Summary:

An estimated 40 million people live with HIV, the precursor virus to AIDS, the most devastating disease that humankind has ever faced. Most people with HIV will die of the disease within the decade, and in Africa, where in the sub-Saharan states HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death, over two million people died in 2001 alone. AIDS has profoundly changed the world. Now in AIDS: A World Changed, longtime gay journalist and author Chris Bull has assembled a landmark collection that will be necessary reading for a broad and diverse constituency, from public health students and professionals to academics, activists, policy makers, and the millions whose lives have been indelibly marked by the epidemic. Included are essays, polemics, fiction, and investigative journalism -- pieces that helped us to understand the epidemic and its ramifications and that have withstood the test of time

ISBN:

1560254394

OCLC:

49903165