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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
London's Guardian on Tuesday profiled HIV/AIDS advocate and author Elizabeth Pisani. Pisani, an epidemiologist and medical demographer, spent 10 years working on HIV/AIDS issues for UNAIDS and a nongovernmental organization in Indonesia before leaving the field to write her new book, called "The Wisdom of Whores.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
THE WISDOM OF WHORES: BUREAUCRATS, BROTHELS AND THE BUSINESS OF Aids By Elizabeth Pisani Granta, 288pp, £17.99
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of Aids Elizabeth Pisani Granta Books, 288pp, £17.99
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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
When Elizabeth Pisani began her career as an HIV epidemiologist, fewer than 1,5-million cases of HIV/Aids had been reported across the world. Within a year, by the end of 1997, 30-million people were estimated to be infected with HIV. As Pisani wrote in her first report for World Aids Day, that meant one in every 100 sexually active adults aged between 15 and 49 worldwide.
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Plastic: Most Recent (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Plastic::SciTech::Health: HIV epidemiologist, Elizabeth Pisani, is set to spark controversy with the publication of her new book 'The Wisdom of Whores' which argues that the current global strategy against HIV is fundamentally flawed.
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
From The Guardian Western governments are spending mind-boggling sums treating HIV-positive patients in the developing world. But would they save more lives by concentrating on prevention? Decca Aitkenhead meets the outspoken expert who says that liberal fears of appearing judgmental are blinding us to the truth about the disease. When Elizabeth Pisani began her career as an [...]
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Geoff Coupe's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
That's the title of a new book by Elizabeth Pisani. She's an AIDS scientist and epidemiologist, and there's a good interview of her in today's Guardian . Basically, her thesis is that more focus on prevention, rather than treatment of AIDS would have better results. As an old gay man, having lived through the dark days of the 1980s, I find the casual attitude to bareback sex (sex without...
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Great Blue World (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Western governments are spending mind-boggling sums treating HIV-positive patients in the developing world. But would they save more lives by concentrating on prevention? Decca Aitkenhead meets Elizabeth Pisani, the outspoken expert who says that liberal fears of appearing judgmental are blinding us to the truth about the disease The Guardian An interview with a dissenting voice in The...
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Stereohyped (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
In her new article in The Times of London, epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani, who has researched HIV for more than 10 years, says political correctness has impeded the eradication of HIV in Africa. Specifically, that the many nations and medical groups working to prevent the spread of HIV are unwilling to express this truth: “HIV is [...]
