To End a Plague - by Emily Bass (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"As of 2003, there were nearly 27 million men, women, and children suffering from AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Today that number has been reduced by more than half. The number of people with access to antiretroviral drugs--a treatment which renders AIDS survivable rather than fatal--has gone from around 50,000 to more than 11 million. All of this is thanks to a Bush administration program known as PEPFAR. Even on the day of its launch during the 2003 State of the Union, no one much noticed it. It cost a fraction of a percentage of the overall budget and was far less expensive than the Iraq war, effectively announced on the same day. Yet PEPFAR is, according to journalist Emily Bass, "the best thing America has done beyond our borders in this century." To End a Plague is not merely a history of this extraordinary program; it describes the cost of success in our broken political system. PEPFAR was likely a cynical political ploy--a "legislative trophy" as the New York Times described it--and its overseers, including the now-famous Coronavirus Task Force leader Deborah Birx--had to make moral and political compromises to keep it from being shut down. Yet the program has persevered and made an enormous improvement in millions of lives. This is the story of true change and what it takes to make it"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"Randy Shilts and Laurie Garrett told the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the late 1980s and the early 1990s, respectively. Now journalist-historian-activist Emily Bass tells the story of US engagement in HIV/AIDS control in sub-Saharan Africa. There is far to go on the path, but Bass tells us how far we've come." --Sten H. Vermund, professor and dean, Yale School of Public Health</b> <p/>With his 2003 announcement of a program known as PEPFAR, George W. Bush launched an astonishingly successful American war against a global pandemic. PEPFAR played a key role in slashing HIV cases and AIDS deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, leading to the brink of epidemic control. Resilient in the face of flatlined funding and political headwinds, PEPFAR is America's singular example of how to fight long-term plague--and win. <p/><i>To End a Plague</i> is not merely the definitive history of this extraordinary program; it traces the lives of the activists who first impelled President Bush to take action, and later sought to prevent AIDS deaths at the whims of American politics. Moving from raucous street protests to the marbled halls of Washington and the clinics and homes where Ugandan people living with HIV fight to survive, it reveals an America that was once capable of real and meaningful change--and illuminates imperatives for future pandemic wars. Exhaustively researched and vividly written, this is the true story of an American moonshot.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>In "To End a Plague", Emily Bass chronicles in detail how this [American AIDS] plan came to be...[A] new very, very helpful history. --<i><b>Rachel Maddow</b></i><br><br>"<i>To End A Plague</i> is a triumph, the sort of masterful, commanding work that comes around only once in a great while. Wonderful and wildly important--a landmark work that will endure."--<i><b>Martin Duberman, distinguished professor emeritus of history, CUNY</b></i><br><br>"Bass has written a memory map of activism; a love song to a generation that insisted that African lives mattered. Told with compassion and grit, this is a searing story of a generation of women warriors."--<i><b>Sisonke Msimang, author of Always Another Country</b></i><br><br>"Emily Bass brings passion, originality, honesty, grit, and fierce independence to her assessment of the wildly ambitious--and inarguably successful--PEPFAR. Bass threw herself, whole heart, at this project, recounting PEPFAR's story in greater detail than ever before.."--<i><b>Jon Cohen, senior correspondent at Science</b></i><br><br>"Emily Bass reveals a vast and intricate web of cause and effect that spans the globe. A must-read for citizens of countries at the receiving end of donor aid."<i></i>--<i><b>Doreen Baingana, author of Tropical Fish</b></i><br><br>"Emily Bass's granular account tracks what happened after the American media klieg light shifted away from AIDS, without sacrificing poetry to mountains of data."--<i><b>Avram Finkelstein, founding member of the Silence=Death collective</b></i><br><br>With the sustained rhetorical power of a seasoned journalist and the nuance of a social theorist, Emily Bass drops us into America's decades-long war on 'AIDS in Africa.' Essential reading for everyone who hopes that the scattershot production of vaccine will meaningfully end the current plague."--<i><b>Cindy Patton, author of Sex and Germs</b></i><br><br>"Massive in scope and detail, Bass's crucial if at times dense tome could not be more timely."--<i><b>Booklist</b></i><br><br>"Readers with a background in the subject will consider this essential."--<i><b>Publishers Weekly</b></i><br><br>"With 25 years of experience as an AIDS activist, journalist Bass makes a vivid book debut with a detailed recounting of a prevention program that effectively stemmed AIDS in Africa...A timely history of successful government intervention."--<i><b>Kirkus Reviews</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Emily Bass</b> has spent more than twenty years writing about and working on HIV/AIDS in America and East and Southern Africa. Her writing has appeared in numerous books and publications including <i>Foreign Policy</i>, <i>The</i><i>Washington Post</i>, <i>The Lancet</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, and <i>n+1</i>, and she has received a notable mention in <i>Best American Essays</i>. A lifelong social justice activist, Bass has served as an external expert for the World Health Organization and a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do collective. She is the recipient of a Fulbright journalism fellowship and a Martin Duberman Visiting Research Fellowship from the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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