{"product_id":"9780312427726","title":"The Invisible Cure : Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Invisible Cure\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Helen Epstein\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New York Times Notable Book of 2007\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Cure\u003c\/i\u003e is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid. Helen Epstein left her job in the US in 1993 to move to Uganda, where she began work on a test vaccine for HIV. Once there, she met patients, doctors, politicians, and aid workers, and began exploring the problem of AIDS in Africa through the lenses of medicine, politics, economics, and sociology. Amid the catastrophic failure to reverse the epidemic, she discovered a village-based solution that could prove more effective than any network of government intervention and international aid, an intuitive response that calls into question many of the fundamental assumptions about the AIDS in Africa. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with conviction, knowledge, and insight, \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Cure\u003c\/i\u003e will change how we think about the worst health crisis of the past century--and indeed about every issue of global public health.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An enlightening and troubling book.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique.” —\u003ci\u003eSalon.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye.” —\u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312427726\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40671091917006,"sku":"9780312427726","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_3c992de8-0d2e-48c0-baa9-e64927aa7399.jpg?v=1639800249","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312427726","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}