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020			_a9781139005234 (ebook)
020			_z9781107006638 (hardback)
020			_z9780521186377 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aRA643.86.A35 _bP465 2011
082	0	0	_a362.196/97920096 _222
100	1		_aPepin, Jacques, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Origins of AIDS / _cJacques Pepin.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_a1 online resource (310 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aIt 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.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107006638
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139005234
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37991 _d37991