The invisible people
Subtitle: how the U.S. has slept through the global AIDS pandemic, the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of our time
By: Greg Behrman
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780743257558
Subjects: World Health; Government policy; Gesundheitspolitik; Health Policy; International Cooperation; Geschichte 1983-2003; HIV-Infektion; History; Staatsversagen; Politische Stabilität; Disease Outbreaks; Prevention & control; HIV Infections; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; AIDS (Disease)
Description: "The invisible people is a look inside the United States's response to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known - the global AIDS crisis. A true story of politics, bureaucracy, disease, internecine warfare, and negligence, it illustrates that while the pandemic constitutes a profound threat to U.S. economic and security interests, at every turn the United States has failed to act in the face of this pernicious menace." "In this account that draws on more than two hundred interviews with key political insiders, policy makers, and thinkers, Greg Behrman chronicles the red tape, colossal blunders, monumental egos, power plays, and human pain and suffering that comprise America's woeful response to the AIDS crisis. Behrman's unprecedented access takes you inside the halls of power from seminal White House meetings to tumultuous turf battles at World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, heated debates in the United Nations, and chilling discoveries at the Centers for Disease Control. Behrman also brings us into the field to meet the people who live in the midst of AIDS devastation in places like a school yard in Namibia, the red-light district in Bombay, and an orphanage in South Africa."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: A feeble beginning (1983-1990); title: 1. A contentious start, buck passing; title: 2. The prism of the U.S. experience, absence of leadership; title: 3. A maverick goes to Geneva, turf wars; title: Quiescence (1990-1996); title: 4. Voices in the wilderness, race and space; title: 5. No advocacy from above, no groundswell from below; title: 6. The Clinton enigma, bunker and hunker down; title: An awakening of sorts (1996-1999); title: 7. Drugs change the landscape, a mission crystallizes; title: 8. The clash, a forum; title: 9. Evidence-based advocacy, start the press; title: Opportunities squandered (1998-2000); title: 10. Continental abdication, the ultimate crutch; title: 11. A failure to recalibrate, turf and neglect; title: 12. A foiled plan, "too little, too late"; title: A great awakening? (2001-2003); title: 13. A bleak outlook, finally; title: a vehicle; title: 14. Righting the response, getting religion; title: 15. Behind closed doors, coalescence.