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Shattered Dreams? - An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic (Hardcover)
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Shattered Dreams? - An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic (Hardcover)
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On April 27th, 1994, the people of South Africa voted in their
first democratic election, bringing down the curtain on 46 years of
Apartheid. But, at the very moment of transition, the seeds of a
grave epidemic had already been sown. AIDS has indelibly marked the
era since the Apartheid's end, exacting an enormous toll on South
Africa's Black community. Since the epidemic's onset, more thean
1,000,000 men, women and children have died. Shattered Dreams? is
an oral history of how physicians and nurses in South Africa
struggled to ride the tiger of the world's most catastrophic AIDS
epidemic. Based on interviews - not only from the great urban
centres of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban - but from provincial
centres and rural villages, this book captures the experience of
health care workers as they confronted indifference from
colleagues, opposition from superiors, unexpected resistance from
the country's political leaders, and material scarcity that was
both the legacy of Apartheid and a consequence of the global power
of the international pharmaceutical industry. In 2003, after years
of bitter debate and persistent agitation on the part of treatment
activists, the national government committed itself to making
anti-retroviral drugs available to those whose lives hung in the
balance. Now that a halting rollout of drug treatment has begun, it
is more crucial than ever to capture the experiences of those who,
as caregivers, have been witness to the unfolding South African
epidemic and who are now able to provide these new medications to a
small but growing number of their patients.
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