The origins of AIDS

The Resource The origins of AIDS

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The origins of AIDS

Statement of responsibility

Jacques Pepin

Language

eng

Summary

"This compelling new account traces the origins and development of the most dramatic and destructive disease epidemic of modern times. Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and the subsequent evolution and transmission of the disease before it was first officially identified in 1981. The book focuses on the specific circumstances in Leopoldville, the capital of the Belgian Congo, where urbanization, the spread of prostitution, and medical interventions to control the incidence of tropical diseases interconnected to fuel the communication of HIV-1 in the 1960s, as the country struggled to adapt to its newfound independence. With a unique synthesis of historical, political and medical elements, this book adds a coherent and necessary historical perspective to recent molecular studies of the chronology of the HIV/AIDS pandemic"--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Dewey number

362.196/97920096

Illustrations

illustrations
maps

Index

index present

LC call number

RA643.86.A35

LC item number

P465 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

2011 J-858
WC 503.3

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The work The origins of AIDS represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.