Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic

Kevin M. De Cock, MD, joined CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in 1986. He was Founding Director of the CDC's HIV/AIDS research site in Cote d'Ivoire, Director of the CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention-Surveillance and Epidemiology, Founding Director of the CDC's Center for Global Health, Director of the CDC's work in Kenya, and Team Lead for Ebola responses in West and Central Africa. He is also former Professor of Medicine and International Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and former Director of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization.Harold W. Jaffe, MD, began his work at CDC in its Venereal Disease Control Division. In 1981, he joined the initial Task Force on Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections. He held numerous leadership positions across the agency's HIV/AIDS program, including Director of the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, and later served as CDC's Associate Director for Science. From 2004 to 2010, Dr. Jaffe was Professor and Head of the Department of Public Health at the University of Oxford, where he established the University's first MSc course in Global Health Science.James W. Curran, MD, MPH, is former Dean and Professor of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health and current Emeritus Director of the Center for AIDS Research at Emory University. From 1971-1995, he worked at CDC, where in 1981 he was tapped to lead the agency's newly formed Task Force on Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections. He continued to lead CDC's evolving programs in HIV/AIDS throughout the 1980s and early 1990s before joining Emory.Robin Moseley, MAT, joined CDC in 1989 as a writer-editor, with assignment to the AIDS division. She continued working in AIDS and other infectious diseases at CDC throughout her career, focusing on developing scientific and policy documents and presentations and facilitating external partnerships.

• Prologue Section I. From Unexplained Illness to Expanding Epidemic Chapter 1. CDC and Outbreak Response Chapter 2. The BeginningChapter 3. Surveillance: The Cornerstone of the Early Response Chapter 4. Homosexual Men Chapter 5. Heterosexual Men and Women and Injection Drug Users Chapter 6. Haitian Americans and Haiti Chapter 7. Mothers and Infants Chapter 8. Blood and Blood Products Chapter 9. HIV: Discovery, Diagnosis, and Disease Chapter 10. Responding to Fears: Real and Imagined Threats Chapter 11. Making Predictions Section II. CDC and the Early International Response to AIDS Chapter 12. Working Internationally Chapter 13. Project SIDA in the Democratic Republic of Congo Chapter 14. Jonathan Mann: Past as Prologue Chapter 15. HIV-2 and Project RETRO-CI in Cote d'Ivoire Chapter 16. The HIV/AIDS Collaboration in Thailand Section III. The Modern AIDS Era Chapter 17. Advances in Science and Public Health Chapter 18. Origins Chapter 19. Increased Understanding, Improved Outcomes Chapter 20. CDC in the Modern AIDS Era Chapter 21. WHO and the Evolving AIDS Pandemic Chapter 22. CDC and the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Epilogue

I could not stop reading this book from start to finish. The best aspect of this fascinating book is its readability, captivating readers with how linked the problem is worldwide. The writing is succinct and has a human touch with stories of researchers and victims from around the world.