In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya’s “sexual diseases problem.” That initial invitation led to a groundbreaking international scientific collaboration that would uncover critical pieces in the complex puzzle that became today’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. In Piecing the Puzzle, journalist and documentary filmmaker Larry Krotz chronicles the fascinating history of the pioneering Kenyan, Canadian, Belgian, and American research team that uncovered HIV/AIDS in Kenya, their scientific breakthroughs and setbacks, and their exceptional thirty-year relationship that began a new era of global health collaboration.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 362.196/97920096762
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- f-ke---
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- 9780887554209 9780887557309
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- RA643.86.K4
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- K76 2012eb
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- 1 electronic text (viii, 178 p., [10] p. of plates)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00229066 (OCoLC)767940722 (CaOOCEL)443728
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Note on Sources 9
- Introduction 12
- Chapter One: Waging War With Infectious Diseases 21
- Chapter Two: The African Epidemic 34
- Chapter Three: Educating Around AIDS 49
- Chapter Four: Research Strategies 59
- Chapter Five: Secrets of the Sex Workers 77
- Photo Insert A 90
- Chapter Six: The Vaccine Quest; and More Lessons Fromthe Immune System 94
- Chapter Seven: The Kenyan Side: Squaring the Collaboration 103
- Chapter Eight: An Experiment in Kisumu 116
- Chapter Nine: Legitimizing Circumcision 133
- Photo Insert B 140
- Chapter Ten: Unfinished Business 146
- Conclusion: AIDS World 161
- Afterword by King Holmes, Herbert Nsanze, Peter Piot, and Allan Ronald 178
- Selected Bibliography 182
- Notes 184
- Introduction 184
- Chapter 1: Waging War With Infectious Diseases 185
- Chapter 2: The African Epidemic 185
- Chapter 3: Educating Around AIDS 187
- Chapter 4: Research strategies 187
- Chapter 5: Secrets of the Sex Workers 189
- Chapter 6: The Vaccine Quest; and More Lessons Fromthe Immune System 189
- Chapter 7: The Kenyan Side 190
- Chapter 9: Legitimizing Circumcision 190
- Chapter 10: Unfinished Business 191
- Conclusion: AIDS World 191
