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Saturday Is for Funerals - 9780674050778

Un libro in lingua di Unity Dow Myron Essex edito da Harvard Univ Pr, 2010

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Dow, a judge of the Interim Constitutional Court of Kenya and a novelist joins with Essex, an AIDS researcher and professor of health sciences at Harvard, in collaboration with hundreds of Botswana citizens to tell the story of the effect of AIDS in that country. Each chapter is a personal story of one victim and his or her family into which is woven an aspect of the history of the disease and the fight against it. The stories are often poignant, demonstrating how families have been destroyed and villages come together in the face of overwhelming illness and loss. Interwoven with the stories of individuals is an explanation of local customs and traditions that give emotional support to the sufferers. The problem of negative Western influence is also mentioned, from the arrogant supposition that Africans were too ignorant to take pills on schedule to the realization that the practice of male circumcision, abandoned due to pressure from Christian missionaries, helps to reduce the spread of the disease. The storytelling is lyrical and the data is presented in a clear, understandable prose that makes the individual experiences part of a human tragedy that affects us all. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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