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    28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
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    28: Stories of AIDS in Africa

    By Stephanie Nolen

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    For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings to life men, women, and children involved in every AIDS arena, making them familiar. And she explores the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in scope, and the reasons why we must care about what happens.

    In every instance, Nolen has borne witness to the stories she relates, whether riding with truck driver Mohammed Ali on a journey across Kenya; following Tigist Haile Michael, a smart, shy fourteen-year-old Ethiopian orphan fending for herself and her baby brother on the slum streets of Addis Ababa; chronicling the efforts of Alice Kadzanja, an HIV-positive nurse in Malawi; or interviewing Nelson Mandela's family about coming to terms with his own son's death from AIDS. Nolen's stories reveal how the disease works and spreads; how it is inextricably tied to conflict and famine and to the diverse cultures it has ravaged; how treatment works, and how people who can't get treatment fight to stay alive with courage and dignity against huge odds.

    Imagine the entire population of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles combined infected with HIV, and its magnitude in Africa is clear. Writing with power and simplicity, Stephanie Nolen makes us listen, allows us to understand, and inspires us to care. Timely and transformative, 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa is essential reading for anyone concerned about the fate of humankind.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateMay 26, 2009
    ISBN9780802718761
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    28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
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    Stephanie Nolen

    Stephanie Nolen is the Johannesburg bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, the national newspaper of Canada. She recently reported from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and currently covers the AIDS pandemic in Africa. She is the author of Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race.

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    • 5/5
      Anyway, the book (other than the omission of the pages) was truly amazing. I was recommended it by a friend and I have an interest in that sort of thing so I bought it and I honestly didn't think I was as ignorant about the subject as I turned out to be. I always pride myself on being kinda savvy and stuff about world issues but that was completely thrown out the water. It's a great book - and there's stories from everyone from all walks of life in it. A prostitute old enough to be a grandmother who is immune to the disease, a little boy who got held back in school because he was too sick to pass his final exams, the girl who had lost her parents and was looking after her little brother who was dependant on the people of the village to look after them, lorry drivers, educators, soldiers, wives, husbands, aid workers, doctors, scientist - everyone. I don't know, I think because it delivered it in such a way that in the small snapshot you got you learned a little more. The misconception that the soldier had that as long as the prostitute was fat then he didn't have to worry about catching anything, the excuse of some official that there was no point giving African's drugs because they 'told the time using the sun' and wouldn't be able to adhere to the timing methods necessary to follow the guidelines because of it, the artist who always wore a condom but got infected because he went to help a neighbour after a break-in and he got injured and his blood crossed with an infected supply...

      It's just a great book and I highly recommend it to anyone. It's an eye-opener and although the stories are about something tragic and the numbers and some of the things that happen are tragic, it isn't a book that is solely about that, which sounds weird but it's true.
    • 5/5
      This is of course a sad book, full of sad stories, but it is also so very full of hope. If the world continues to pretend that HIV/AIDS is not rampant in the world, it will drown us all. This is a great read.
    • 5/5
      "28 - stories of AIDS in Aprica" is a collection of the very personal stories of heroic AIDS sufferers in Africa, most of whom could not avail themselves of the medications that sat on a clinic shelf just down the road, because the cost was too high.

      There have been serious, painful issues in my life - as in every life - and reading this book motivates me to recycle my own grief into positive action for others. Thank you, author Stephanie Nolan! (Great book for high school classrooms, universities, support groups)
      Eleanor Cowan, author of 'A History of a Pedophile's Wife'
    • 5/5
      The fluid movement of the AIDS cases that the author encounters in Africa are a perfect example of how great non-fiction is written. The books reads as quickly as any work of fiction, except the stories are at once heart warming and heart wrenching. This book better than many others illustrates how the "everyman" of Africa is coping with this highly personal disease.
    • 5/5
      Though there have been many books published about the AIDS epidemic in Africa that discuss it through the lens of politics, economics and, of course, health and science, very few have touched on it at the personal level. 28 Stories literally tells the story of 28 different people (one for every million people infected with the virus) who have been effected in different ways, in 28 different places by HIV/AIDS. By juxtaposing stories of activists, health workers and clergymen who are infected with stories of Overland-truck drivers, prostitutes and migrant workers, Nolan does a supurb of showing that these people have many things in common but many things that are unique. The book does an amazing job giving this disease a human face, which rarely occurs in books on the subject, and at the same time gives amazing statistics and facts about the epidemic. By taking 28 people from many different places (Including South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe in the South, Nigeria in the West, and Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, etc in the East) Nolan does an excellent job showing that Africa is not one big country and the infected are not just one huddled mass. Startiling facts; beautiful and tragic stories; Amazing contibution to the subject.