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Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS (New Afterword)

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Moving Mountains is a thorough and moving account of the overwhelming worldwide threat of AIDs and the struggle to provide preventive medicines to those communities devastated by the virus yet lacking the resources necessary to contain it. Although I approached this book possessing very little knowledge about the AIDs virus and quite ignorant of its treatment methods, I found D'Adesky's study not only clear and informative, but involving and compassionate. Her relentlessly complete account of the immeasurable repercussions of AIDs, and the mind-numbing statistics she presents, are balanced by powerful personal accounts of AIDs victims and activists. Yet most important I think is D'Adesky discussion of the direction AIDs prevention is going and the disastrous results of failing to provide treatment. Although controlling the spread of the virus is an enormous task, as D'Adesky urgently informs us, the epidemic cannot continue to be ignored, and treatment cannot continue to be out of reach to the impoverished communities that need it most. I strongly recommend D'Adesky's book; it is a passionate and necessary addition to AIDS literature that should be read by all those actively interested in AIDs research - which should be every one of us.