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The wisdom of whores
bureaucrats, brothels, and the business of AIDS
By Pisani, Elizabeth
- ISBN
- 978-0-39306-662-3
- Publisher
- New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2008.
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Reviewed on May 1, 2008
Despite billions of dollars in funding, international HIV-prevention efforts sometimes achieve only modest results, a reality the author sums up as the triumph of politics and ideology over sound science. Combining a background in journalism with experience as an epidemiologist (who has worked with, among other organizations, UNAIDS, the World Bank, and the health ministries of several Asian governments), Pisani here presents a blunt, cynical, and even f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
