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Sex Transm Infect 2004;80:328 doi:10.1136/sti.2003.008169
  • Book Review

Letting Them Die—Why HIV/AIDs prevention programmes fail

  1. N O’Farrell
  1. Pasteur Suite, Ealing Hospital, London UB1 3HW, UK; ofarrell@postmaster.co.uk

      Edited by Catherine Campbell. Pp 214; £40.00 (cloth) £12.95 (paper). Oxford: James Currey, September 2003. ISBN 0-85255-867-8 and 0-85255-868-6.

      What is going on with HIV in South Africa? The epidemic escalates with no sign of slowing down, making the country the worst affected in the world. The government continues to try and find excuses not to deliver either treatment or prevention programmes. The sense of stigma is so palpable that ignorance of serostatus carried to the grave seems to be the usual way of living with the virus.

      This book tells the story of an HIV intervention project in Carletonville, a mining …

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