Piecing the puzzle : the genesis of AIDS research in Africa / Larry Krotz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krotz, Larry, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Research--Kenya.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--International cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya's "sexual diseases problem." That initial invitation led to a groundbreaking international scientific collaboration that would uncover critical pieces in the complex puzzle that became today's HIV/AIDS pandemic. In Piecing the Puzzle, journalist and documentary filmmaker Larry Krotz chronicles the fascinating history of the pioneering Kenyan, Canadian, Belgian, and American research team that uncovered HIV/AIDS in Kenya, their scientific breakthroughs and setbacks, and their exceptional thirty-year relationship that began a new era of global health collaboration.

Contents:

Waging War with Infectious Diseases

The African Epidemic

3 Educating Around AIDS

Research Strategies

Secrets of the Sex Workers

The Vaccine Quest; and More Lessons From the Immune System

The Kenyan Side: Squaring the Collaboration

An Experiment in Kisumu

Legitimizing Circumcision

Unfinished Business

Conclusion AIDS World.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-48688-0

9786613582119

0-88755-420-2

OCLC:

767940722