MOVING MOUNTAINS: The Race To Treat Global AIDS

Indispatches written from around the world, Anne-christine d 'Adeskyreports on the greatest challenge facing us today: the global effort toprovide life-saving medicines and care to 40 million people living withHIV and AIDS in resource-poor countries, the great majority insub-Saharan Africa. She analyzes the obstacles to providing universalaccess to antiretroviral drugs whose cost has been out of reach tomillions until now, and she exposes the underlying and often competingagendas of donor and recipient governments, funders, activists andindividuals with HIV who are struggling to survive. In lively, in-depthfield reports from countries including Cuba, Brazil, Russia, Haiti,Mexico, Uganda, South Africa, China and India, she reveals how pilotand national treatment programs are serving as models. They provide alitmus test of the feasibility of HIV and AIDS treatment in settings ofabject poverty, underdevelopment and economic and politicalinstability. Looking ahead, Moving Mountains discusses the potential ofAIDS treatment programs to bolster prevention efforts and help rebuildshattered nations and economies. It also warns of the consequences thatcould face individuals, nations and the world if we fail to achievethis monumental task.