A crucial and political investigation of the global AIDS crisis and how it impacts the most vulnerable and invisible among us, Moving Mountains offers practical solutions and grassroots victories. It sounds a cry of the consequences that will befall us if we do not put human life ahead of greed.
Eve Ensler Moving Mountains provides us with the first ... Read moreblueprint for systematically attacking the myriad complex problems associated with treatment scale-up. Once believed to be an impossible task, Anne-christine d'Adesky not only shows us programs that work, but also where they are not working. No person in the field of HIV/AIDS treatment or prevention, in developed countries or the developing world, should be without this book. If you want to understand where we are in the global race to treat HIV, start with Moving Mountains.
Kevin Frost Indispensable for anyone trying to stop the global AIDS epidemic-or who wants to learn its searing lessons. From Haiti to Russia, India to South Africa, d'Adesky brings her rich history of thoughtful journalism and fierce activism to bear on one of the most urgent questions of our age: how to give people in poor countries the same chance to live as people in rich ones.
Mark Schoofs Anne-christine d'Adesky links moral engagement to careful scholarship and reportage in the first honest accounting of the great plague of our times. Moving Mountains should be required reading for anyone who wants to know how history's largest infectious killer of young adults could spread untrammeled across five continents. Beleaguered humanity is lucky that d'Adesky-surely one of the world's most promising public intellectuals-has taken on global AIDS.
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