This work includes a foreword by Jeffrey Koplan, Vice President,
Academic Health Affairs, Emory University, Atlanta, Formerly
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This
groundbreaking new book blows apart the myths about who is at risk
of getting AIDS and shows how these myths are driven by moral and
political pressures. It provides an objective, logical, clear,
epidemiologically based analysis on the current situation and
situates itself firmly at marked variance with the politically
correct position of UNAIDS and most AIDS activists. "The AIDS
Pandemic" argues that the story of HIV has been distorted by UNAIDS
and AIDS activists in order to support the myth of the high
potential risk of HIV epidemics spreading into the general
population. In the past, most policy makers and members of the
public have uncritically accepted UNAIDS' high prevalence estimates
and projections when in fact lower HIV prevalence estimates are
more accurate. Time, money and resources are being wasted
worldwide. This book is full of fresh analysis for all people
working in any capacity in HIV/AIDS programmes. It will be
invaluable to undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare students,
health and social care professionals and the international media.
Policy makers and shapers will find the pioneering information
crucial to the future of the AIDS strategy. 'For close to a half
century, my work as a public health epidemiologist has involved
field research, program management, and teaching, mostly on public
health surveillance and prevention and control of communicable
diseases. [Since 1981] I have been involved virtually full time
with the international response to the AIDS pandemic which is
without question one of the most severe infectious disease
pandemics in modern times. During my public health career that
began in the early 1960s, I have always been considered a part of
conventional or mainstream medical science. However, since the
mid-1990s, I have found myself swimming upstream against mainstream
AIDS organisations. I have, during this period, gradually come to
the realisation that AIDS programs developed by international
agencies and faith based organizations have been and continue to be
more socially, politically, and moralistically correct than
epidemiologically accurate.' - James Chin, in the Preface.
'Controversy and differing opinions have been hallmarks of the AIDS
epidemic since its onset. The scope of the problem, how to identify
high risk groups without increasing the burden of stigma, the
safety of blood products, the best balance between prevention and
treatment, have all been hot issues sometimes dividing the public
health community. The passion and conflicts about how to consider
and address the AIDS pandemic reflect the huge impact this disease
has had globally and its interplay with macro economic, legal,
social, political, national security and ethical domains. Vital,
provocative, thoughtful, direct, passionate, rational and willing
to challenge conventional wisdom. "The AIDS Pandemic" is filled
with information, rational arguments and opinions, often
intermingled. It is a rare book on epidemiology that puts so much
of the author's personality and viewpoints, along with his
knowledge and experience, before the reader. The result is a
thought-provoking, likely-to-be-controversial, contribution to the
AIDS literature that should engage and stimulate the reader.' -
Jeffrey Koplan, in the Foreword.
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