HSCI 130 Lecture 8: HSCI 130 Lecture 5 Origins of HIV Notes
13 Mar 2018
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Craig timberg is former johannesburg bureau chief for the washington post. Daniel halperin, phd, is an epidemiologist and medical anthropologist at the university of north carolina, chapel hill. The book tinderbox = reveals how colonial companies blazed new trailer through remote africa in search of rubber and other riches. It is here humans came in contact with hiv. It chronicles the discovery and spread of aids in the united states. They argues that aids was allowed to happen and that the incompetence and apathy towards those initially affected with aids allowed for the epidemic to become much worse. Jacques pepin: orgin of aids = a central african bush hunter was first infected in 1921. Aids spread silently in africa for decades, fuelled by improperly sterilized needles, urbanization and sex work. Hiv was brought to the americas by a. Haitian teacher returning home from zaire in the 1960"s.
