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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 10 books in this booklist
£20.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780773544864 | ISBN 10: 0773544860
At the height of the African AIDS crisis older women mobilized across two continents and an ocean of difference to change the lives of innumerable African women confronting insecurity, violence, grief, and illness. In 2006 the Stephen Lewis Foun ... more
View book details£21.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745331539 | ISBN 10: 074533153x
Of the 16 million children to have been orphaned by AIDS worldwide, almost 15 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. Hope Amidst Despair focuses on these children and those who are made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Of the millions affected, many live ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780719523601 | ISBN 10: 0719523605
HIV/AIDS is more divisive and destructive than any other disease - tearing apart communities and ostracising the afflicted. Award-winning novelist Uzodinma Iweala embarks on a remarkable journey around the African continent meeting individuals and co ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099524199 | ISBN 10: 0099524198
At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga. Home to a few hundred villagers, the majority of them unemployed, it is inconceivably poor. It is to here that award-winning ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141011059 | ISBN 10: 014101105x
AIDS may be the deadliest infectious disease in human history. What makes some societies more vulnerable than others? Why is the HIV epidemic so severe in Africa and why has it been so difficult to control? Should we blame sexual mores? Gender inequa ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846270383 | ISBN 10: 1846270383
There are 28 million people living with HIV in Arica. Why should we care? Here, in 28 stories, are 28 reasons why. "From the tiny virus, via 28 individual human stories, to an entire continent, these stories will tear you apart before putting you ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781932360929 | ISBN 10: 1932360921
The After-Death Room offers an insider's urgent quest for a more global understanding of the psycho-spiritual challenges that people face who wake up each morning inside the AIDS epidemic and have to act, to learn, to hope from there. McColly's ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780714531427 | ISBN 10: 0714531421
An extraordinary account of a nine-month journey made by the author and his family into some of the World’s HIV/AIDS epicentres. Sent by the Salvation Army to bear witness to the work they were doing in response to the pandemic, Rhidian Brook ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780852558904 | ISBN 10: 0852558902
This book is aimed initially at students who want to study the history of the AIDS epidemic but who currently have no starting point from which to enter the vast and often technical literature. Other readers will also find it a helpful introduction t ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780330419727 | ISBN 10: 0330419722
Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the last three decades. Why? The Shackled Continent, Robert Guest's fascinating first book, seeks to diagnose the sickness that continues to hobble Africa's development. Why are so many African n ... more
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