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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,...

Tells the story of communities, researchers, and doctors who faced - and continue to face - something never seen before: type 2 diabetes in younger and younger people. Through dozens of interviews, Krotz shows the impact of the disease on the lives of individuals and families as well as the challenges caregivers faced diagnosing and then responding to the complex and perplexing disease.