Piecing the Puzzle: The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa

ISBN-13: 9780887557309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 220 str.

Larry Krotz

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In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya s sexual diseases problem. That initial invitation led to a groundbreaking international scientific collaboration that would uncover critical pieces in the complex puzzle that became today s HIV/AIDS pandemic. In "Piecing the Puzzle, "journalist and documentary filmmaker Larry Krotz chronicles the fascinating history of the pioneering Kenyan, Canadian, Belgian, and American research team that uncovered HIV/AIDS in Kenya, their scientific breakthroughs and setbacks, and their exceptional thirty-year relationship that began a new era of global health collaboration."