Saturday Is for Funerals

Informationen zum Autor Unity Dow is a practicing lawyer in Botswana and the author of four novels. She was formerly a judge with both the Botswana High Court and The Interim Constitutional Court of Kenya. Max Essex is Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He has been involved in AIDS research from the earliest days of the U.S. epidemic in 1982. Klappentext Dow and Essex tell the true story of lives in Botswana ravaged by AIDS. Witness the actions of community leaders, medical professionals, research scientists, and educators of all types to see how an unprecedented epidemic of death and destruction is being stopped in its tracks. Zusammenfassung In the year 2000 the World Health Organization estimated that 85 percent of fifteen-year-olds in Botswana would eventually die of AIDS. This title tells the true story of lives ravaged by AIDS - of orphans! bereaved parents! and widows; and! of families who devote most Saturdays to the burial of relatives and friends.

Product details

• Authors: Unity Dow, Unity Essex Dow, Unity/ Essex Dow, Dow Unity, Max Essex, Essex Max
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2011
• EAN: 9780674061835
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06183-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Botswana, Epidemiology & medical statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Hiv / Aids: Social Aspects, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases, Epidemiology and Medical statistics