To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa

To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa

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  • Create Date：2021-07-15 17:31:02
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  • Author：Emily Bass
  • ISBN：1541762436
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Paul S。 Zeitz ，

To End A Plague is a monumental journalistic effort！ Emily Bass remarkably weaves togerther her personal journey， her long term tracking of people and AIDS programs in Uganda， and she shares incisive reporting on the advocacy and policy dynamics in Washington DC and in Africa。 This combination of information is truly fascinating， daunting， and inspiring！ I relived my own journey as I absorbed this book。 To End A Plague is a must read for anyone who cares about controlling pandemics today or in t To End A Plague is a monumental journalistic effort！ Emily Bass remarkably weaves togerther her personal journey， her long term tracking of people and AIDS programs in Uganda， and she shares incisive reporting on the advocacy and policy dynamics in Washington DC and in Africa。 This combination of information is truly fascinating， daunting， and inspiring！ I relived my own journey as I absorbed this book。 To End A Plague is a must read for anyone who cares about controlling pandemics today or in the future。 。。。more

Janet ，

Date reviewed/posted: May 20， 2021Publication date: July 16， 2021When life for the entire galaxy and planet has turned on its end， you are continuing to #maskup and #lockdown to be in #COVID19 #socialisolation as the #thirdwave （#fourthwave #fifthwave？） is upon us， superspeed readers like me can read 300+ pages/hour， so yes， I have read the book … and many more today。I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley， the publisher and the author in exc Date reviewed/posted: May 20， 2021Publication date: July 16， 2021When life for the entire galaxy and planet has turned on its end， you are continuing to #maskup and #lockdown to be in #COVID19 #socialisolation as the #thirdwave （#fourthwave #fifthwave？） is upon us， superspeed readers like me can read 300+ pages/hour， so yes， I have read the book … and many more today。I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley， the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review。 From the publisher， as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews， I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸。With his 2003 announcement of a program known as PEPFAR， George W。 Bush launched an astonishingly successful American war against a global pandemic。 PEPFAR played a key role in slashing HIV cases and AIDS deaths in sub-Saharan Africa， leading to the brink of epidemic control。 Resilient in the face of flatlined funding and political headwinds， PEPFAR is America’s singular example of how to fight long-term plague—and win。To End a Plague is not merely the definitive history of this extraordinary program; it traces the lives of the activists who first impelled President Bush to take action， and later sought to prevent AIDS deaths at the whims of American politics。 Moving from raucous street protests to the marbled halls of Washington， and the clinics and homes where Ugandan people living with HIV fight to survive， it reveals an America that was once capable of real and meaningful change—and illuminates imperatives for future pandemic wars。 Exhaustively researched and vividly written， this is the true story of America’s last moonshot。One of the scariest phenomena that I have read about in the fight for getting rid of AIDS is males raping elderly women and babies after hearing that that will cure them of the disease。 SERIOUSLY？？？？ If people have to lock up their babies and young children and elderly women have to learn to defend themselves then the situation is seriously effed up。This was an extensive and mentally exhausting （but in a good way） read: there is some wonderful research and writing in here explaining the situation and what is being done about it but the USA for the entire continent of Africa。 It harkens to the current fight for Africa to get vaccines for COVID19 from us 。。。 can we help them or should we （the USA and the rest of the world） save ourselves？？ The fact that Dubya cared about someone other than himself was shocking to me as I feel that all he did was help the rich get richer and not care about other countries。 （Thank god we have Mackenzie Scott 。。 the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos） and the Gates Foundation to help when governments fail！） This is a book that begs for discussion by your friends， family， book clubs and patrons who you know will like the book。As weird as it sounds。。。。 take this book to the beach （or your back yard， porch or balcony） and enjoy it - just wear a tonne of SPF110 as you will lose track of time as you read this。 - If we are in the 5th or 6th wave/mutation of COVID19 by then， stay inside: no tan is worth dying for。 #maddogsandenglishmenAs always， I try to find a reason to not rate with stars as I simply adore emojis （outside of their incessant use by "🙏-ed Social Influencer Millennials/#BachelorNation survivors/Tik-Tok and YouTube Millionaires/snowflakes / literally-like-overusers etc。 " on Instagram and Twitter。。。 Get a real job， people！） so let's give it ⛱️⛱️⛱️⛱️⛱️copy - https://www。facebook。com/janetsbookco。。。 copy - https://www。facebook。com/janetsbookco。。。copy - https://janetcousineau。wixsite。com/we。。。 。。。more