The Aids Epidemic By Daniel Halperin And His Coauthor, A...

This book is a very interesting and detailed analysis of the AIDS epidemic. It is very fact heavy, yet it still manages to entertain the reader and capture his or her attention. This riveting narrative describes pretty much everything you need to know about HIV and AIDS. The ideas behind this compelling work were collectively put together and written by an award-winning AIDS researcher named Daniel Halperin and his coauthor, a Johannesburg Washington Post reporter, Craig Timberg. This exciting story tells you about how Western colonial powers first sparked the flame that would later come to be known as the AIDS crisis. They unfortunately helped to rapidly ignite and spread HIV and AIDS across the world. Tinderbox uses examples from†¦show more content†¦Daniel Halperin and Craig Timberg witnessed some of the deadly fates of AIDS victims in Africa unfold and they write about those victim’s lives as well as their deaths. This book shares a few stories of individuals who suffered from the disease and somehow miraculously managed to overcome it and prolong their lives with normal good health after taking antiretroviral drugs or ARVs; whereas others in the same situation battled against AIDS for years, hopelessly trying to fight it off while their health suffered due to the complete eventual collapse and failure of their immune system and its inability to fend for dear life ;a tragic death seemed utterly inevitable. This book talks about how recent genetic evidence form new discoveries have traced the birth of AIDS to being rooted in the southeastern forests of Cameroon in Africa, where chimpanzees had a very similar strain of Human Immunodeficiency Virus in their blood. They carried this simian immunodeficiency virus for hundreds of years without creating any major, large-scale outbreak in humans. The birth origin story of HIV may have been happened sometime around 1880 to 1920. TImberg and Halperin discuss that the birth of HIV most likely occurred when a European hunter traveling in