Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda

Book Overview

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. A massive global health intervention, the scaling up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), saved them and created a generation of people who learned to live with treatment. As clients they joined programs that offered free antiretroviral medicine and encouraged "positive living." Because ART is not a cure but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822358085
• ISBN13: 9780822358084
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.8"