description: A percentage of the proceeds from sales of this book will go to the New York Harm Reduction Educators of the Bronx AIDS Services.According to the World Health Organization, even day, an estimated 5,000 people get infected with HIV. Based on this statistic, it is estimated that the global rate of HIV infection is one person every seventeen seconds."Along with environmental degradation and the threat of nuclear war, the common threat of AIDS has helped to accelerate global consciousness and the emergence of a global conscience. Yet global AIDS is always in danger of becoming an abstraction. To strengthen global solidarity, it is essential to link the individual with the universal --- and thus us the vital task undertaken by Brian Weil and Simon Watney. This book helps us see the universal through the particular details of AIDS in single communities and countries. To say this book is powerful is redundant: how could the faces of those confronting AIDS be anything less? This book is an eloquent contribution to a global ethic of caring --- which the world needs more today than anything else."Jonathan M. Mann, MD, MPH; Professor of Epidemiology and International Health; Director, International AIDS Center of the Harvard AIDS Institute, Harvard School of Public Health; Former Director of the World Health Organization's Global Program on AIDS.
language: English
title: Every 17 Seconds: A Global Perspective on the AIDS Crisis
titlecomplete: Every 17 Seconds: A Global Perspective on the AIDS Crisis
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publisher: Aperture