No Place Left to Bury the Dead: Denial, Despair and Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic

Цена 41.20 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780743270953

Автор

Издатель Atria

Страниц 352

Год выпуска 2007

Every day in Africa, approximately 7,000 men, women, and children are erased from the face of this planet by the devastating AIDS virus that - even after more than two and a half decades - continues to wreak havoc around the globe, especially in underdeveloped nations. "No Place Left to Bury the Dead" dares to go where media, governments, and ordinary individuals in the West seldom venture - face-to-face with fellow humans suffering in the shadow of our collective ignorance and neglect. In this haunting investigation, acclaimed journalist Nicole Itano goes beyond traditional journalistic methods as she eats, sleeps, and lives with the women who struggle daily with the raging epidemic of AIDS. Working from the personal accounts of a few real women living with the disease, Itano traces their moments of discovery and diagnosis, their first symptoms, and the ways they cope with treatment and manage the news with their families. Itano"s masterful blend of the personal, scientific,...