Tinderbox

Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It [Paperback]

Author: Craig Timberg | Language: English | ISBN: 0143123009 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It
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"Remarkable... reads like a detective novel."—The New Yorker

In this groundbreaking work that reads like a detective novel, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned the flames. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic, and in a riveting narrative that stretches from colonial Leopoldville to 1980s San Francisco to South Africa today, it reveals how human hands unleashed this epidemic and can now overcome it, if only we learn the lessons of the past.

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• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (March 5, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0143123009
• ISBN-13: 978-0143123002
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #440,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #67 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diseases & Physical Ailments > AIDS
  • #91 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Pathology > Diseases > AIDS & HIV

There clearly are two camps posting comments about this book. Those who endorse Male Circumcision (MC) as an HIV prevention strategy, basing their conclusions on three key African trials, and those who oppose male circumcision for multiple reasons, including: doubting those studies findings, seeing condoms and education as more effective, and seeing MC as an abusive or intrusive practice.

There have several comments accusing others of mis-truths, lies, etc. I know I will have such calls thrown at me, but I'll try to help move the debate forward somewhat as best I can.

Firstly - regarding credentials and conflict of interest - I am a health policy researcher who has worked on HIV prevention in Africa for 15 years, and I hold a PhD on the subject of AIDS in Africa (specifically Uganda). I am a social scientist, not a virologist or epidemiologist, although I have a good understanding of epidemiology from my work. I also know one of the authors of this book as a colleague (I've even once co-authored a short journal communication with him and others). So I am declaring all this upfront.

I am, however, primarily an educator and a researcher, looking to learn and contribute. I hope this comment can help people to do that. There are multiple issues here which seem to come up in these debates which need to be clarified:
1) Whether MC reduces susceptibility to HIV
2) Whether it is ethical or moral to circumcise
3) Whether MC affects sexual performance or pleasure
4) What other complications one might face with MC
5) If other HIV prevention interventions are better or more effective than MC

1) First is whether male circumcision reduces the susceptibility to HIV.

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