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A Cure Too Far takes the reader back to the bleak time in Africa
when doctors stood by helplessly and watched in horror as their
distraught patients were hijacked by a ragtag army of cocky
healers. It describes an obstacle-strewn struggle to stop peddlers
of fake AIDS drugs and other detractors while trying to find a
scientifically proven solution to alleviate the carnage. This story
is informed by incredible personal accounts of individuals who
played different roles in the war for survival, and of those who
found the agony too much to bear, as the relentless scourge ripped
apart thousands of years of cultural practices. Even when hope
appeared in January 2003, through the President's Emergancy
Programme for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a devastating financial crunch
hit, threatening to undo all that had been achieved
Genocide by Denial: How Profiteering from HIV/AIDS Killed Millions
traces the carnage of HIV/AIDS from its Ugandan epicentre in the
villages of Kasensero, along the shores of Lake Victoria, through
sub-Saharan Africa and onto the rest of the world. The author's
involvement in the struggle against the virus started in 1989, soon
after his return from a long exile in Europe and the Middle East.
On arrival he found the disease devastating his country, compelling
him to fight the modern-age plague. He became one of the leaders in
a protracted fight against the scourge and an advocate for
universal access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy. In this
book the author exposes the incredible self-indulgence of the
pharmaceutical companies and the cold-heartedness of the rich world
that turned a blind eye until it was far too late, and then
responded too slowly with too little. The book details his
challenge to the powerful pharmaceutical companies that insisted on
profitable business as usual, ignoring the lives of millions, and
his call for more ethical and humanitarian ways of trade, involving
crucial life-saving drugs, and a new world order to ensure
entitlement of the poor to rapid humanitarian relief.
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