Volume 54, Number 13 · August 16, 2007
How, and How Not, to Stop AIDS in Africa
By William Easterly
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS
by Helen Epstein
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 326 pp., $26.00
One of the classic works of journalism of the last couple of decades was Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On[1] about the sluggish response to AIDS in the 1980s in the United States, which indicted both the Reagan administration and the leaders of the gay community. I still remember the sense of outrage I felt when reading Shilts's book; it struck just the right note, leaving one both horrified about the tragic incompetence of so many and yet also hopeful that someone, somewhere could do things better next time.
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