A controversial insider's account of global failures in responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, looking at how 'spin' obscures the lessons from science and experience about disease transmission.

Elizabeth Pisani is author of The Wisdom of Whores an account of global failures in responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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