The zombie curse : a doctor's 25-year journey into the heart of the AIDS epidemic in Haiti

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The zombie curse : a doctor's 25-year journey into the heart of the AIDS epidemic in Haiti

Title remainder

a doctor's 25-year journey into the heart of the AIDS epidemic in Haiti

Statement of responsibility

Arthur M. Fournier, with Daniel Herlihy

Title variation

zombie curse

Title variation remainder

a doctors 25-year journey into the heart of the AIDS epidemic in Haiti

Creator

• trueFournier, Arthur M., (Arthur Michael), 1947-

Contributor

• Herlihy, Daniel

Subject

• trueAIDS (Disease) -- Epidemiology
• AIDS (Disease) -- Florida | Miami
• AIDS (Disease) -- Haiti
• trueAmericans in Haiti
• trueDiseases -- Causes
• trueEpidemics
• trueEpidemics -- Haiti
• trueHaiti
• trueHaiti -- Social life and customs
• trueMiami, Florida
• trueMiami, Florida -- Social life and customs
• truePhysicians
• truePhysicians -- Florida
• Physicians -- Haiti
• truePhysicians -- Miami, Florida
• truePoverty
• truePoverty and AIDS
• trueAIDS (Disease)

Language

eng

Summary

"Fournier sends out a cry from the front lines about the overwhelming role poverty plays in the spread of AIDS. His awakening came in the early 1980s when, as a faculty physician at the University of Miami Medical School, he saw AIDS spreading through the city's Haitian population. He tells stories of patients-men, women and children-with clear signs of AIDS (believed at that time to be a disease of gay men and drug users) and how they were stigmatized by medical personnel. Among others, Fournier gives a moving account of Regis, a Haitian dentist who, may have contacted the virus through his work in medically primitive conditions. The author became completely committed to understanding this illness, and with supportive colleagues he traveled many times to Haiti and founded Project Medishare, devoted to improving Haiti's health-care system. He was especially successful in the town of Thomonde, establishing an initiative to train physicians and nurses. Fournier offers brutal descriptions of the poverty that fuels AIDS in Haiti, a country where malnutrition reigns, young women are forced into prostitution and orphanages abound." --Publishers Weekly

Additional physical form

Also available in electronic form as viewed March 23, 2006.

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Dewey number

362.196/97920097294

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography