AIDS: Don’t Die of Prejudice by Norman Fowler

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By Norman Fowler

Eighteen million humans around the globe stay with HIV yet don't know they're contaminated. Endangering either themselves and numerous others, they signify a public healthiness problem that is affecting not just Africa yet all the pieces of the realm, together with Europe and the U.S.. We stand at a tipping aspect within the AIDS problem - and until we will elevate the numbers proven and taken care of, we won't defeat it. even with the development because the Nineteen Eighties there are nonetheless over 1.5 million deaths and over 2 million new HIV infections a yr. Norman Fowler has travelled to 9 towns worldwide to file at the place this present day. What he stumbled on used to be a stunning mix of lack of knowledge, prejudice, bigotry and intolerance. In Africa and japanese Europe, a emerging tide of discrimination opposed to gays and lesbians prevents many from coming ahead for trying out. In Russia, drug clients are death simply because an illiberal govt refuses to introduce the rules that may shop them. terribly, Washington has swimsuit and excluded monetary aid for confirmed rules on medicines, and has grew to become its again on intercourse staff. during this lucid but robust account, Norman Fowler unearths the stairs that needs to be taken to avoid an international tragedy. AIDS: do not DIE OF PREJUDICE is either an in-depth research and an impassioned name to palms opposed to the best public overall healthiness risk on the planet today

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