Walking Together, Walking Far
Fran Quigley
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Description for Walking Together, Walking Far
Paperback. Two medical schools join forces to battle HIV/AIDS in Kenya Num Pages: 176 pages, 30 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 1KBB; JKS; MBN; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 305. Weight in Grams: 277.
A remarkable partnership between the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya has built one of the most comprehensive and successful programs in the world to control HIV/AIDS. Calling upon the resources of the Americans, the ingenuity of the Kenyans, and their shared determination to care for patients who had been given up for dead, the program has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and described as a miracle by the U.S. ambassador to Kenya. Doctors from Kenya and the United States—employing methods once considered unfeasible, such as successfully administered antiretroviral regimes—have ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253220899
SKU
V9780253220899
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99-50
About Fran Quigley
Fran Quigley is Director of Operations and Development for the IU–Kenya Partnership at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. He is a lawyer and contributing columnist for the Indianapolis Star and other publications. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. Paul Farmer is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a founding ... Read more
Reviews for Walking Together, Walking Far
"Provides an important story and critical lessons that can actually lead to the stabilization and control of the AIDS pandemic in the world, while saving millions of lives in the process." —Robert Aponte, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis "This Indiana-Moi partnership is a model for how to tackle the huge challenges of HIV/AIDS and poverty in general, and one of the ... Read more