Book Review: HIV Pioneers: Lives Lost, Careers Changed, and Survival by Wendee M Wechsberg (Editor)

Fay Hartley
October 2018

Book review published on the British Society for the History of Medicine

HIV Pioneers documents how over 30 years of the HIV epidemic, new AIDS cases and AIDS-related deaths have been reduced worldwide by multidisciplinary approaches. The book’s main idea is to use inspirational vignettes from HIV researchers, leaders, survivors, family and friends to enliven the “tremendous strides” made in the prevention and treatment of HIV since the epidemic appeared early in the 1980s...

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Wendee Wechsberg

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Substance abuse treatment

Gender issues and HIV risk

Community-based research

International HIV intervention adaptations