June 5 2006 was the 25th anniversary of the first medical report of
Aids. 25 years on, Aids is a global catastrophe, with 25 million
dead and another 40 million infected. The UN held a crisis session
in May 2006. But the disaster could have been prevented. What went
wrong? In body count aids campaigner and journalist Peter Gill
calls those responsible to account. Meticulously researched, the
title unearths new and shocking facts. How successive US
presidents, including Bill Clinton (now a great Aids champion),
failed to provide leadership against the pandemic. How George W
Bush committed $15 billion to fighting Aids, but insists on a
seriously flawed Aids prevention policy. How Christian campaigners
for sexual abstinence influence the US Aids programme – and how
moral disapproval of prostitution and needle exchange put
vulnerable people at risk. How sex, race and the politics of
liberation fatally blinkered President Mbeki's response to Aids in
South Africa where one in five are HIV-positive, and how his health
minister, a qualified doctor, says that garlic is a better
treatment than drugs. How one African leader failed to respond to
the death of thousands of men, women and children, and then
declared: 'the wages of sin are death'. How courageous Roman
Catholic missionaries in South America and Africa stood up for
condoms gainst the rigid opposition of their local superiors and
the Vatican. How western pharmaceutical companies manoeuvred to
protect their patents and profits against the interests of poor
people. How Tony Blair's Labour government vigorously promotes
universal Aids treatment in Africa, but ignores the fate of many
HIV-positive Africans in Britain. And how the Thatcher government
did better than Labour in combating Aids. The title includes unique
interviews with politicians, church leaders, campaigners and HIV
positive people - Colin Powell, who as US Secretary of State was in
charge of the Bush Aids programme, is now sharply at odds with the
administration on the question of condoms; Dr German Velasquez, a
World Health Organization official, who was assaulted and warned to
'stop messing with the pharmaceutical industry'; Zackie Achmat,
HIV-positive South African activist, who refused to take his
treatment until the government made antiretrovirals available to
everyone; Father Valeriano Paitoni, an Italian missionary in Sao
Paulo, who says that if Christ was on earth today, He would be
saying 'Use the condom.' Peter Gill has recently led a major
campaign against Aids in India for the BBC World Service Trust. He
has been a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph in south
Asia and the Middle East, and has travelled widely in the
developing world as a TV reporter for Thames Television, Channel 4
and the BBC.
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