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Helen C. Epstein is Visiting Professor of Global Public Health and Human Rights at Bard College. She has worked for more than 20 years as a public health consultant in Uganda and other countries for such organizations as the World Bank, UNICEF and Human Rights Watch. Her book The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight against AIDS in Africa was a New York Times Notable Book and Amazon’s best science book of 2007. Her articles have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and other publications.

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Not really a question as such, just to say I was due to visit Uganda with my mother in law, a retired GP who had been to Uganda as a med student in the 1960's and back again as a visitor/junior doctor. Your book was given to me as a gift. I found it completely astonishing and a complete revelation. I guess most African countries have similar post colonial horror stories. What has the reaction been from the Uganda?

Helen C. Epstein Dear Chris,
Thanks for this. In fact, most African countries aren't horror stories at all. Much of southern and western Africa has been at peace since…moreDear Chris,
Thanks for this. In fact, most African countries aren't horror stories at all. Much of southern and western Africa has been at peace since the end of the Cold War. Around 1990, Ghana, Malawi, South Africa, Namibia and other countries began holding multiparty elections, releasing political prisoners and freeing up the media. These countries, though not with out problems (like corruption, an affliction everywhere) have not descended into the bloody mayhem seen in the eastern and central African autocracies (Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan, Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia etc). In other words, democracy, for all its faults, actually works in Africa.

Books that are critical of the Museveni regime are usually censored in Uganda, so as far as I know, the book is not available there. Those who have read it tell me they like it, but I suspect they are afraid to talk about it with others.(less)

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	The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS 4.09 avg rating — 1,010 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror 4.04 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In 2014, the Ugandan government passed a law imposing harsh penalties on homosexuals. The law was born out of an internecine power struggle among Ugandan politicians not worth explaining here, but fear of homosexuals remains widespread in the country, where there has been little modern sex education and where the idea of homosexuality evokes historical memories of a mad young king at the dawn of modern times, whose territory swirled with rumors of approaching armies.”
― Helen C. Epstein, Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror

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