Based on research by a leading geographer and specialist in
diffusion theory, The Slow Plague discloses the geographic
dimension of the AIDS pandemic. It provides a lucid description of
the HIV, its origins, and the extent to which it has now permeated
our lives. The author shows how the virus jumps from city to city,
creating regional epicenters from which it spreads into surrounding
areas.
Four case studies at different geographic scales demonstrate the
devastating effects of the disease. In Africa the situation is
catastrophic, in Thailand it is rapidly becoming so. In the US
there are over 300,000 people with AIDS and more than one million
infected by the HIV. The relationships between poverty, drugs and
HIV infection are brought out poignantly in a chapter about the
Bronx.
The author argues that a real understanding of AIDS has been
hampered by conscious or unconscious beliefs that those affected
are, and will continue to be, confined to specific minority groups
and to parts of the Third World. He shows that such views have led
to fundamental misconceptions about the pattern of the spread of
the disease and about those who will be most at risk, now and in
the immediate future.
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