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Tinderbox how the West sparked the AIDS epidemic and how the world can finally overcome it

"Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and Harvard AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin, PhD, recount for the first time how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new genetic discoveries, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom...

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Main Author: Timberg, Craig
Other Authors: Halperin, Daniel
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Africa > Epidemiology.
AIDS (Disease) > Africa > Etiology.
HIV infections > Africa > Epidemiology.
HIV infections > Africa > Etiology.
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Summary:"Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and Harvard AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin, PhD, recount for the first time how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new genetic discoveries, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best means to fight it today"--
Physical Description:421 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781594203275 (hardback)
159420327X (hardback)
Author Notes:Craig Timberg is the former Johannesburg bureau chief for The Washington Post . From his position, he visited twenty-three African nations  and penned dozens of major stories about AIDS. He is now The Washington Post 's deputy national security editor.
Daniel Halperin, PhD, is an epidemiologist and medical anthropologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and has taught at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. He was a top technical adviser in the US government's PEPFAR program to combat AIDS.

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