Jonathan Engel
Forfatter af The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS
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Jonathan Engel is professor of health policy and management at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, CUNY. He has taught previously at Seton Hall University, the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and the School of Public Health at the vis mere University of Massachusetts. He served as a staff historian on the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and as the lead author on multiple HIV needs assessments for the city of Newark. His books include The Epidemic: A History of AIDS (2006); American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States (2008); and Unaffordable: American Healthcare from Johnson to Trump (2018). vis mindre
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The saddest thing about AIDS is that it preys upon some of our outcast peoples: IV drug users, male homosexuals, prostitutes, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia. Perhaps it is our fault for casting them out, but these populations doo not need additional stigma to be heaped upon them. But stigma, HIV/AIDS brought on.
This book highlights the simple fact that transmission of HIV is simple: One only needs to be part of an at-risk group, like someone who shares needles, engages in sex with many sexual partners, or engages in anal sex. Preventing the transmission of HIV is as simple as stopping those practices or using techniques to sanitize them.
It is sad that Reagan did not slow or stamp out the disease in the earliest years as this book well attests. HIV eradication is a long way away, but at least HAART treatment covers much of the infected, at least in the Western world. Africa and Asia still suffer from not being able to afford HAART treatment.
If you care about the outcast and those not in the center of society, this book is for you.
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