The origins of AIDS / / Jacques Pepin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811657503321
• Autore: Pepin Jacques <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-107-22753-4; 1-139-12489-7; 1-283-29862-7; 1-139-12342-4; 9786613298621; 1-139-00523-5; 1-139-12833-7; 1-139-11331-3; 1-139-11767-X; 1-139-11550-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 362.196/97920096
• Soggetti: HIV infections - Africa; HIV infections - Etiology; AIDS (Disease) - Africa; Emerging infectious diseases - Africa
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-281) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Out of Africa; 2. The source; 3. The timing; 4. The cut hunter; 5. Societies in transition; 6. The oldest trade; 7. Injections and the transmission of viruses; 8. The legacies of colonial medicine I: French Equatorial Africa and Cameroun; 9. The legacies of colonial medicine II: the Belgian Congo; 10. The other human immunodeficiency viruses; 11. From the Congo to the Caribbean; 12. The blood trade; 13. The globalisation; 14. Assembling the puzzle; 15. Epilogue: lessons learned.
• Sommario/riassunto: It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin ; looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how urbanization, prostitution, and large-scale colonial medical campaigns intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential new perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learnt if we are to avoid provoking another pandemic in the future.