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The Origins of AIDS

Jacques Pepin 2011 ;ISBN: 9780521186377 ;ISBN: 1107006635 ;ISBN: 9781107006638 ;ISBN: 0521186374 ;EISBN: 9781139005234 ;EISBN: 1139005235 ;EISBN: 1139115502 ;EISBN: 9781139115506 ;EISBN: 9781107227538 ;EISBN: 1107227534 ;EISBN: 1139124897 ;EISBN: 9781139124898 ;DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139005234 ;OCLC: 768770477

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  • Title:
    The Origins of AIDS
  • Author: Pepin, Jacques
  • Subjects: Africa ; AIDS ; AIDS (Disease) ; Caribbean ; Doctors ; Economic development ; Emerging infectious diseases ; Epidemiology ; Etiology ; History ; HIV ; HIV infections ; Prostitution ; Urbanization
  • Description: It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in 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 urbanization, 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 new perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learnt if we are to avoid provoking another pandemic in the future.
  • Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Creation Date: 2011
  • Format: 312
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780521186377
    ISBN: 1107006635
    ISBN: 9781107006638
    ISBN: 0521186374
    EISBN: 9781139005234
    EISBN: 1139005235
    EISBN: 1139115502
    EISBN: 9781139115506
    EISBN: 9781107227538
    EISBN: 1107227534
    EISBN: 1139124897
    EISBN: 9781139124898
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139005234
    OCLC: 768770477
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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