Body Count: Fixing the Blame for the Global AIDS Catastrophe

by Peter Gill

Twenty-five years on, with twenty million dead and another forty million infected, AIDS is the world's worst epidemic. But the catastrophe could have been prevented. Body Count explains how millions could have been saved and many million more infections could have been prevented if the world had responded properly to the crisis. To get this story, Peter Gill has traveled the world and interviewed dozens of the key players, including C. Everett Koop, Colin Powell, Sandy Thurman (the Clinton "AIDS czar"), Larry Kramer — and the Bush Administration's own Randall Tobias, the Bush chief AIDS official. Including both personal accounts and individual profiles, as well as analyses of insitutional efforts, Body Count is a harrowing read, and one of the most important books of the year.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Nikita Geldenhuys · Rating 2 out of 5]

This quick read contains the harrowing facts about the world's delayed response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the consequences thereof. While I now know more or less who to point the finger to for the rising number of deaths and new infections due to the epidemic, the author failed to bring across a main argument with the book.

[Suzannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

May-June 2017. This is the first non-fiction book I've read willingly and really enjoyed it.