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Aids: Don't Die of Prejudice Paperback – Import

by NORMAN FOWLER (Artist)

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Shortlisted for Polemic of the Year at The Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2015 Eighteen million people around the world live with HIV but do not know they are infected. Endangering both themselves and countless others, they represent a public health challenge that affects not only Africa but every part of the world, including Europe and the United States. We stand at a tipping point in the AIDS crisis - and unless we can increase the numbers tested and treated, we will not defeat it. In spite of the progress since the 1980s there are still over 1.5 million deaths and over 2 million new HIV infections a year. Norman Fowler has travelled to nine cities around the globe to report on the position today. What he discovered was a shocking blend of ignorance, prejudice, bigotry and intolerance. In Africa and Eastern Europe, a rising tide of discrimination against gays and lesbians prevents many from coming forward for testing. In Russia, drug users are dying because an intolerant government refuses to introduce the policies that would save them. Extraordinarily, Washington has followed suit and excluded financial help for proven policies on drugs, and has turned its back on sex workers. In this lucid yet powerful account, Norman Fowler reveals the steps that must be taken to prevent a global tragedy. Aids: Don't Die of Prejudice is both an in-depth investigation and an impassioned call to arms against the greatest public health threat in the world today.

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Biteback Publishing
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5.43 x 0.91 x 8.46 inches
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1849547041
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978-1849547048
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Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1849547041
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849547048
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.43 x 0.91 x 8.46 inches

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Dr A S Menon-Johansson

This book is a vital read for anyone with an interest in the publics health

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 27, 2017

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Norman Fowler has succinctly summarised what works and what hinders the control of the HIV pandemic. The central barrier to progress is prejudice and this short and very readable book highlights the central role that human rights should play in healthcare and government policies.

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arts guy

Read this important book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 1, 2014

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I am an HIV+ gay man and have been for 22 years. In the 1980s one of my friends was amongst the first handful to die from AIDS and as an activist I fought very hard against conservative (small c) and Conservative (big c) policies that demonised us. At the time, the fact that Norman Fowler succeeded in getting a fairly up-front and doom laden message into every household was both extraordinary but also cause for concern. We wanted people to care about the hundreds of gay people so hideously neglected and hideously afflicted by AIDS but worried that the ads were aimed at keeping straight people safe whilst we were left to die, making us look like death incarnate in the process. His party’s government did little to stem the tide of hate and abuse levelled at us by the press and religious bigots (remember the Sun's headline "I'd Shoot My Son If He Had AIDS, Says Vicar”). Fowler himself supported Clause 28 and to my mind could have apologies more specifically than he does in the book for that wretchedly nasty little bill (he uses a footnote and says, in relation to Putin’s similar efforts that it was not in the same league). Having said all that, I urge you to read this absolutely fantastic and brilliant book.

In clear, easy to read but erudite prose, Fowler travels the world to reveal the stark and horrifying situation regarding the current state of play with this virus. He believes we have a window to rescue the situation but unless we act now an absolutely catastrophic situation is brewing, in particular in Africa and Russia, but also in many other places including for instance the USA and large parts of South East Asia. He clearly and adamantly sets out that the solution is now ‘Don’t Die of Predudice’. He believes, and starkly demonstrates, that conservative attitudes to sex workers, drug users, LGBT people and medieval attitudes towards women are key. Unsparing in his criticisms, but delivering it in calm factual way, he demolishes by demonstration the religious bigotry and the wishful thinking of both left and right towards most of these issues. Marshalling figures to prove his point he has travelled all over the globe to talk face to face to both sides of the argument. From the positions of Anglican and Catholic Churches on sex outside marriage and gay people to Harriet Harman’s proposal to outlaw buying sex, he takes apart the cases, looks at them for and against and says in effect ‘look at the facts not your belief that something may work’. He also outlines truly frightening and disgusting, utterly barbaric behaviour in Africa and Russia by corrupt systems. Drug users in Russia taken from the streets by police, chained to beds in ‘rehabilitation’ units and beaten to make them say they will stop. The police in most of Africa, in Russia and in India, racketeering asisting murders, and calls to murder from politicians that are so horrifyingly wide spread they are Nazi-like. Truly terrifying government led oppression motivated by money and inhuman ignorance.

Not since Richard Davenport-Hines’ ‘Sex, Death and Punishment’ has there been such a sane, civilised and erudite writer in this field. Don’t die of prejudice – it is not over or manageable. If the medieval behaviour that fill our news makes you despair read this good man’s account of his own mission to try to suggest solutions.

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Informative and up to date

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 2, 2014

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After reading The River by Edward Hooper, which is a very interesting book about the theroies of where HIV originated. I bought this book as a modern follow-on from Hooper's book. I work with homeless people and have a number who are infected with HIV and Hep C, so i always like to read up on what my customers are dealing with. What i liked most was he way it covered a number of countries from all around, so you can compare progress if fighting HIV and Aids. It was sad to see that some countries, mainly African, are so far behind in culture and beliefs. To blame everything on gays in this day and age i find astonishing, and the comments from thier politicians make it all worse. If you want a good, up to date book about the status of HIV around the world then this is a good book for that. Its in depth enough without becoming a scientific manual, and i found it an enjoyable read even though its what can be a depressing genre.

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D. Vincent

This an excellent, timely and important book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 31, 2014

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This an excellent, timely and important book. I bought it after seeing Norman Fowler interviewed on TV in the UK. He combines compassion and practicality in his approach to the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis. I read this as a very well written rallying call to arms. I hope that those with power to affect change read it too.

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tom

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 12, 2015

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Highly recommended as an insight on AIDS and the dangers of prejudice in creating further infection.

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BG

great analysis well researched well worth a read thoroughly recommend

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 15, 2014

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great analysis well researched well worth a read
thoroughly recommend .
I am grateful to Mr Fowler for the tenacity and determination with which he tackled the HIV Aids issue when in government

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