The Invisible People is a revealing and at times shocking 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. During the past twenty years, more than 65
million people across the globe have become infected with HIV.
Already 25 million around the world have died -- more than all of
the battle deaths in the twentieth century combined. By decade's
end there will be an estimated 25 million AIDS orphans. If trends
continue, by 2025, 250 million global HIV-AIDS cases are a distinct
possibility. Beyond the ineffable human toll, the pandemic is
reshaping the social, economic, and geopolitical dimensions of our
world. Eviscerating national economies, creating an entire
generation of orphans, and destroying military capacity, the
disease is generating pressures that will lead to instability and
possibly even state failure and collapse in sub-Saharan Africa.
Poised to explode in Eastern Europe, Russia, India, and China, AIDS
will have devastating and destabilizing effects of untold
proportions that will reverberate throughout the global economy and
the international political order. In this gripping 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. Intensely researched and
vividly detailed, The Invisible People is a groundbreaking and
compellingly readable account of the appalling destruction caused
by more than two decades of American abdication in the face of the
defining humanitarian catastrophe of our time.
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