Tinderbox
Subtitle: how the West sparked the AIDS epidemic and how the world can finally overcome it
By: Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin
Contributors: Halperin, Daniel
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9781594203275
Subjects: Etiology; Colonialism; HIV Infections; Epidemiology; Western World; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Description: "Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and Harvard AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin, PhD, recount for the first time how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new genetic discoveries, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best means to fight it today"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.