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...prostitution because it pays better than factory work. And she studies the impact of specific sexual activities, explaining scientifically why, say, anal sex is so much riskier than vaginal sex. The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS is, in other words, unlike most books on HIV policy, which shroud arguments about sex and drugs in abstract, uncontroversial terms. Pisani prefers to hit the controversy head on, writing about AIDS as it affects those who are most likely to spread it. As a result, her impassioned critique of failed prevention programs and distorted aid spending is never...
...Wisdom of Whores is Pisani's story of more than a decade spent working in HIV prevention. She starts with her decision in 1994 to give up journalism and study epidemiology - "Sex, drugs and plenty of squeamish politicians. AIDS was the disease for me," she writes - and ends after she quit her job in 2005, following a meeting of epidemiologists in Bangkok that left her doubting the impact of science on real-world AIDS policy. Along the way, Pisani draws on anecdotes from her time chatting with transvestite hookers, rich-kid junkies, epidemiologists and policymakers in Indonesia, where she spent...
These people give Pisani powerful evidence that we must first accept an obvious truth: HIV is not spread by poverty or underdevelopment, as aid workers sometimes suggest, but by the specific - usually avoidable - actions of human beings. Mali is poorer than South Africa, and Bangladesh is poorer than Kenya; yet Mali and Bangladesh have low HIV rates. Fighting AIDS through poverty alleviation has so far had little impact on disease spread, Pisani argues. But targeted distribution of condoms and needles to sex workers and addicts, she says, has been proved to save lives and prevent epidemics at low cost...
...about in the book I was sexually assaulted at the age of 13 by a male next-door neighbor and that incident traumatized me. I came from a dysfunctional family where my mother was a prostitute, she was a heroin addict and then my mother became infected with the HIV virus and she passed it to my baby brother and they both died from the AIDS virus. I had another brother who was also sexually assaulted when he was in a group home and he was infected with the AIDS virus and he later died. All of these different types...
...ballroom danced in Swaziland, camped with crocodiles and hippopotamuses in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, and worked as a peer mentor in a Jamaican HIV orphanage. Her interest in global health and development, which has taken her to the Chinese Center for Disease Control in the past, will bring her to the Dominican Republic and Sierra Leone this summer. For Amy T. Wu ’09, living and breathing the developing world is the only way to truly understand the “global economy.” Wu is not alone in wanting to study and work...