02350nam a2200277Ia 4500 3228 20250704104411.0 210817s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9781770 130678 Paperback RDA ENGLISH 3228 362.1969792 LAWS Lawson, Lesley 20004 Side effects: the story of AIDS in South Africa Cape Town : Double Storey, 2008. 352 pages Colour Illustrations: 21 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. Why does South Africa have one of the worst AIDS epidemics in the world, and why have all the attempts to deal with it led to deepening controversy and strife? Side Effects is an historical account that gets to grip with these vexing questions. It explains how, and why, AIDS conquered one of the richest countries on the African continent. Written in fast-moving journalistic style, it is a tale of the failures of presidents and people; of the legacy of apartheid; of bureaucratic indifference and corporate greed. It lays bare the lost opportunities and fateful decisions that led to mass death at a time when medical and social science had cleared the way to the prevention and treatment of the worst disease ever to have afflicted humankind. Above all, it is the biography of an extraordinary virus. A virus that enters a society, just as it enters the body, at its weakest point: an opportunistic virus that has triumphed over the vulnerabilities of a country in transition. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with key players, Side Effects provides the background to current political controversies about the government's AIDS program. It also gives the first credible explanation for President Mbeki's flirtation with the AIDS denialists, departure that reopened the scientific debate on AIDS at a global level and has set back South Africa's AIDS response by many years. Adult South Africa AIDS (Disease) AIDS (Disease)—Social aspects South Africa History History. 138377 225054299 Lesley Lawson, Gail Jennings, John Blignaut, Pulling Rabbits, Ashley Richardson, Creda Communications. 194821 Double Storey 194822 BOOK ddc 12663 Priscilla Nozizwe Mogale 87221 87220 0 0 0 0 CAROL CAROL 2021-08-17 225.00 0 33228021203961 2021-08-17 2021-08-17 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 300 MKHUL MKHUL Non_Fiction 2025-07-04 0 362.1969792 LAWS 33228 02295360 6 2025-07-04 2025-07-04 BOOK