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Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic

Audiobook
Nonfiction
Unabridged   10 hour(s)
Publication date: 10/24/2023

Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic

A Public Health Story

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Digital Download ISBN:9781696611893

Summary

Authentic and insightful, Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic provides an authoritative account of an epidemic and its central role in the expansion of global public health.

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Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic is a unique firsthand account from three public health leaders of CDC's early response to AIDS. Drawing in part on interviews from the CDC's AIDS oral history project, the authors trace the evolution of AIDS from newly recognized disease to pandemic. The first section outlines the earliest days of the epidemic within the United States and the initial prevention strategies. The second section expands the borders of the response to Africa and Thailand, where CDC conducted its first international work on AIDS. The final section closes with an overview of the scientific and public health advancements that followed and the historic community activism that spurred essential funding and partnerships for the development of life-saving interventions.

Authentic and insightful, Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic provides an authoritative account of an epidemic and its central role in the expansion of global public health.

Author Bio

Kevin M. De Cock joined CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in 1986. He was founding director of the CDC's HIV/AIDS research site in Cote d'Ivoire, director of the CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention-Surveillance and Epidemiology, and founding director of the CDC's Center for Global Health. Harold W. Jaffe began his work at CDC in its Venereal Disease Control Division. In 1981, he joined the initial Task Force on Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections. He held numerous leadership positions across the agency's HIV/AIDS program, including director of the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention. James W. Curran is former dean and professor of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health and current Emeritus Director of the Center for AIDS Research at Emory University.