From one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists – comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It is essential reading for our times.In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail’s Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face to the crisis created by HIV-AIDS in Africa. She has achieved, in t From one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists – comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It is essential reading for our times.In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail’s Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face to the crisis created by HIV-AIDS in Africa. She has achieved, in this amazing book, something extraordinary: she writes with a power, understanding and simplicity that makes us listen, makes us understand and care. Through riveting anecdotal stories – one for each of the million people living with HIV-AIDS in Africa – Nolen explores the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in magnitude. It is a calamity that is unfolding just a 747-flight away, and one that will take the lives of these 28 million without the help of massive, immediate intervention on an unprecedented scale.
28 is a timely, transformative, thoroughly accessible book that shows us definitively why we continue to ignore the growth of HIV-AIDS in Africa only at our peril and at an intolerable moral cost.28’s stories are much more than a record of the suffering and loss in 28 emblematic lives. Here we meet women and men fighting vigorously on the frontlines of disease: Tigist Haile Michael, a smart, shy 14-year-old Ethiopian orphan fending for herself and her baby brother on the slum streets of Addis Ababa; Alice Kadzanja, an HIV-positive nurse in Malawi, where one in six adults has the virus, and where the average adult’s life expectancy is 36; and Zackie Achmat, the hero of South Africa’s politically fragmented battle against HIV-AIDS.28 also tells us how the virus works, spreads and, ultimately, kills.
It explains the connection of HIV-AIDS to conflict, famine and the collapse of states; shows us how easily treatment works for those lucky enough to get it and details the struggles of those who fight to stay alive with little support. It makes vivid the strong, desperate people doing all they can, and maintaining courage, dignity and hope against insurmountable odds. It is – in its humanity, beauty and sorrow – a call to action for all who read it.
This is a must-read for everyone. Is a moving book compiled with stories from 28 Africans affected by AIDS (one story for every million individuals with HIV/AIDS in Africa), beautifully written by Canadian.Each story was well-crafted while not being wordy. Nolen really put HIV/AIDS into perspective, providing not only moving stories of real people but also providing astounding statistics about the incidence of HIV/AIDS, death rates, and so on. Further, This is a must-read for everyone. Is a moving book compiled with stories from 28 Africans affected by AIDS (one story for every million individuals with HIV/AIDS in Africa), beautifully written by Canadian.Each story was well-crafted while not being wordy. Nolen really put HIV/AIDS into perspective, providing not only moving stories of real people but also providing astounding statistics about the incidence of HIV/AIDS, death rates, and so on.
Further, not only did she capture the story of the highly infectious disease, she also wove in the political tales of each African country discussed as it related to the individual's story.She selected 28 remarkable people to tell their unique stories. She included researchers, religious leaders, former South African president Nelson Mandela, wives, grandmothers, orphans, refugees, soldiers, nurses, and so on. Just when you finish one story and think it was the most touching story you will ever read in your entire life, you begin reading the next one and realize that there are so many moving stories out there and they are all so unique.I gave this book a whopping 5 stars both for Nolen's writing craftsmanship as well as bringing HIV/AIDS to life in the developing world. We need to acknowledge what is happening to the millions of people in Africa affected and infected by the disease and find a solution to help them. I have to admit that I learned a lot from this book, both about the disease, its treatments (yes, there are some), the research that is being done, as well as the political histories of several of the African nations mentioned.This is a powerful book about Africa and AIDS that everyone can benefit from reading.
It is probably the best book I’ve ever read about the subject. It’s definitely the best book I’ve read so far this year. The author did an amazing job of humanizing people, including the long-haul truck drivers who are a major factor in the spread of HIV.The first story was about a woman in Swaziland. The second story was about 2 children in Ethiopia. The third story was about Kenya, the first African country I’d ever visited and what drew me into and kept me tied to the continent. F It is probably the best book I’ve ever read about the subject.
It’s definitely the best book I’ve read so far this year. The author did an amazing job of humanizing people, including the long-haul truck drivers who are a major factor in the spread of HIV.The first story was about a woman in Swaziland. The second story was about 2 children in Ethiopia. The third story was about Kenya, the first African country I’d ever visited and what drew me into and kept me tied to the continent.
Followed shortly thereafter by a story from Mozambique, a beautiful country and home to half of my son’s extended family. I felt like I’d been punched in the stomach and that she was talking to me directly. You KNOW these people! Do something!”The problemso huge.
The vacuum inside meso huge. Nolen's 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa is nothing short of incredible. Her approach, her writing, and her weaving of all of the material-personal, political, medical, cultural, environmental, local and global-are nothing short of impeccable. I've read many, many books (fiction and nonfiction) related to HIV/AIDS, many of them specifically connected to Africa and/or African writers, and this book eclipses all of them in nearly every way.Nolen tells the stories of 28 individuals in Af Nolen's 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa is nothing short of incredible. Her approach, her writing, and her weaving of all of the material-personal, political, medical, cultural, environmental, local and global-are nothing short of impeccable.
I've read many, many books (fiction and nonfiction) related to HIV/AIDS, many of them specifically connected to Africa and/or African writers, and this book eclipses all of them in nearly every way.Nolen tells the stories of 28 individuals in Africa, all affected by AIDS, in order to weave a fuller picture of the disease and the factors complicating treatment, and even acknowledgement and diagnosis. In the process, she manages to write what is not just a powerful book which illustrates in 28 chapters the lives of 28 incredibly different people, living different lives in different countries, but a book which does more to paint a complete picture of this disease and related cultural territory than any book I've seen has even suggested.
This book gives an extraordinary insight into the struggle with HIV/AIDS in Africa. Behind each of the 28 stories the author traces back to the genetic evolution of the virus and its particular strains, its spread throughout the continent, and explores its mysteries on epidemiological and geographical levels, e.g. Why its difficult to develop a vaccine after years and years of research; why some people never get infected despite constant exposure to HIV; or why ARVs treatment does not always wor This book gives an extraordinary insight into the struggle with HIV/AIDS in Africa. Behind each of the 28 stories the author traces back to the genetic evolution of the virus and its particular strains, its spread throughout the continent, and explores its mysteries on epidemiological and geographical levels, e.g.
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Why it´s difficult to develop a vaccine after years and years of research; why some people never get infected despite constant exposure to HIV; or why ARVs treatment does not always work.Without being overly melodramatic the author points out how HIV/AIDS have become a political matter since the crumbled economies of many African states as well as G8 countries´ indifferent approach to solving the problem on a global level have fatally compromised the ability to supply the poorest with the necessary treatment.Brilliant and staggering at the same time, this is one of the best books on the topic. A very informative read on AIDS in Africa. Stephanie Nolen expertly weaves personal stories from people personally living with AIDS or working on the fight to stop it with historical facts on the disease and the science behind the preventative measures that are being developed. Each chapter covers one persons story with the illness as well as different aspects about AIDS treatment or the challenges of making treatment more available to people across Africa. Some of the chapters do not quite have A very informative read on AIDS in Africa. Romeo juliet ost rar extractor.
Stephanie Nolen expertly weaves personal stories from people personally living with AIDS or working on the fight to stop it with historical facts on the disease and the science behind the preventative measures that are being developed. Each chapter covers one persons story with the illness as well as different aspects about AIDS treatment or the challenges of making treatment more available to people across Africa. Some of the chapters do not quite have the right balance between the personal accounts and other AIDS related information however Nolen succeeds in linking on the ground stories with the wider narrative of the fight against AIDS worldwide. Well researched and written, this book takes care to make the AIDS epidemic understandable no matter your starting understanding of either AIDS or the difficulties faced in treating it in developing nations.
Nolen balances explanation with story very well, so that the emotional thrust of each individual story is not weighed down by the political and economic world that contributes to it.Not sure if it's just the ebook version but there were a lot of consistent typoes, like i for 1 an Well researched and written, this book takes care to make the AIDS epidemic understandable no matter your starting understanding of either AIDS or the difficulties faced in treating it in developing nations. Nolen balances explanation with story very well, so that the emotional thrust of each individual story is not weighed down by the political and economic world that contributes to it.Not sure if it's just the ebook version but there were a lot of consistent typoes, like i for 1 and oddly interjected symbols, generally an open parenthesis. I found that kind of distracting.
Would love an updated afterword, given that we've passed the projected vaccine date and still aren't quite there. Anyway, the book (other than the omission of the pages) was truly amazing. I was recommended it by a friend and I have an interest in that sort of thing so I bought it and I honestly didn't think I was as ignorant about the subject as I turned out to be. I always pride myself on being kinda savvy and stuff about world issues but that was completely thrown out the water. It's a great book - and there's stories from everyone from all walks of life in it. A prostitute old enough to be a grandmother Anyway, the book (other than the omission of the pages) was truly amazing. I was recommended it by a friend and I have an interest in that sort of thing so I bought it and I honestly didn't think I was as ignorant about the subject as I turned out to be.
I always pride myself on being kinda savvy and stuff about world issues but that was completely thrown out the water. It's a great book - and there's stories from everyone from all walks of life in it. A prostitute old enough to be a grandmother who is immune to the disease, a little boy who got held back in school because he was too sick to pass his final exams, the girl who had lost her parents and was looking after her little brother who was dependant on the people of the village to look after them, lorry drivers, educators, soldiers, wives, husbands, aid workers, doctors, scientist - everyone. I don't know, I think because it delivered it in such a way that in the small snapshot you got you learned a little more. The misconception that the soldier had that as long as the prostitute was fat then he didn't have to worry about catching anything, the excuse of some official that there was no point giving African's drugs because they 'told the time using the sun' and wouldn't be able to adhere to the timing methods necessary to follow the guidelines because of it, the artist who always wore a condom but got infected because he went to help a neighbour after a break-in and he got injured and his blood crossed with an infected supply.It's just a great book and I highly recommend it to anyone. It's an eye-opener and although the stories are about something tragic and the numbers and some of the things that happen are tragic, it isn't a book that is solely about that, which sounds weird but it's true. Any amazing book of 28 short stories following individuals, families, and communities in Africa forced to deal with AIDS.
I found that each story was a perfect length to read before bed. However, before I read the book I thought my dream may be filled with nightmares. Quite the contrary actually.
Although the book may appear to be depressing, I found a lot of the stories actually uplifting. The goodness of humanity is represented. I was shocked to find out that the book doesn't just contain sh Any amazing book of 28 short stories following individuals, families, and communities in Africa forced to deal with AIDS.
I found that each story was a perfect length to read before bed. However, before I read the book I thought my dream may be filled with nightmares. Quite the contrary actually.
Although the book may appear to be depressing, I found a lot of the stories actually uplifting. The goodness of humanity is represented. I was shocked to find out that the book doesn't just contain short stories,however, also has contains a lot of information surrounding the issue of AIDS.
I remember a lot of the focus is on blaming the corporate world for the slow movement to stop AIDS. I wanted to read this book because I was lucky enough to meet Stephanie Nolan at Dalhousie University. At the time I believe she was the African correspondent for the Globe and Mail (where she got all of the stories). She seems very knowledgeable and frank on all of the issues dealing with AIDS. I also have traveled to the area in South Africa most effected by AIDS. This book is not simply about reading depressing stories, it is about learning about the larger issues surrounding AIDS and what can be done about it. The only disappointing thing I found about this book is that at the end Stephanie states that she does not recommend people traveling down to Africa to help because the resources used to do this would be much better going to reputable charities.
However, I believe the only way to get people to care about AIDS is to get them to see it, first hand. People need to see to believe. I am sure if Stephanie never saw the real impact of AIDS she would have never made such a great effort to stop it. Stephen Lewis, the former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, called Stephanie Nole's 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa, 'the best book ever written about AIDS'.
I must admit that I was skeptical- how could a relatively short book of stories encapsulate this massive epidemic? By the time I'd finished the third of 28 stories, I'd changed my mind.Nolen successfully uses 28 human experiences of HIV/AIDS, gathered over years of reporting on the issue, to tackle each aspect of the pandemic: orphans, acc Stephen Lewis, the former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, called Stephanie Nole's 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa, 'the best book ever written about AIDS'. I must admit that I was skeptical- how could a relatively short book of stories encapsulate this massive epidemic? By the time I'd finished the third of 28 stories, I'd changed my mind.Nolen successfully uses 28 human experiences of HIV/AIDS, gathered over years of reporting on the issue, to tackle each aspect of the pandemic: orphans, access to treatment, medical research, AIDS in conflict zones and within the military, at-risk groups such as truck drivers and sex workers, African political and international humanitarian approaches to HIV, experiences of children, women, elites, couples, families, activists, and the poorest of the poor.
Her approach left me more knowledgable, and intermittently heartbroken and ready for action. The book critically examines the role of each actor in the pandemic, from international to local in the present and since the first recorded infection. It emphasizes the complexity of the crisis, most importantly its intrinsic links to poverty, as well as including a vital section on how you can help.Effectively, Nolen has written a book that provides an overview of the political, historical, cultural, and economic realities of HIV/AIDS in Africa while constantly drawing the reader back to one fundemental point: HIV/AIDS is first and foremost a human issue.
She quotes Nelson Mandela (he is the main character in the 27th story), 'Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity; it is an act of justice' (353). This book was not what I expected-in a good way. I've read works of non-fiction before that are structured as a collection of profiles of people, and I haven't enjoyed reading them very much because I felt like they didn't provide a lot of context so I didn't learn very much. What was so incredible about 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa was that, underneath the symbolism of telling 28 different stories there was a tremendous amount of contextual information.
Structured more like a typical non-fict This book was not what I expected-in a good way. I've read works of non-fiction before that are structured as a collection of profiles of people, and I haven't enjoyed reading them very much because I felt like they didn't provide a lot of context so I didn't learn very much. What was so incredible about 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa was that, underneath the symbolism of telling 28 different stories there was a tremendous amount of contextual information. Structured more like a typical non-fiction book, each story built upon those that came before it to explore new topics. After reading the book, I felt like I had a good understanding of the issues around the transmission and treatment of AIDS in different regions of Africa, the social impact of the disease on individuals and on communities, and the challenges facing international aid efforts and government health programs.
If the epidemic of AIDS in Africa is a cause that you care a lot about, I really recommend this book as an introduction to understanding the issue more in-depth. Stephanie Nolen is passionate about explaining the deep repercussions of the epidemic on economic and political stability, and her book can help those of us in the international community be more savvy about the donations we make and the international policies that we support. I loved this book-Nolen has gathered the stories of 28 different people touched by AIDS in Africa. Most are HIV positive themselves, and others are community activists and vaccine researchers. There is also an excellent profile on Nelson Mandela. Nolen's main mission here is to show that although thousands of people die of AIDS in Africa ever day (5500/day is the stat that she uses), it is completely and totally devastating in the same way it would be if you were to start losing your family her I loved this book-Nolen has gathered the stories of 28 different people touched by AIDS in Africa. Most are HIV positive themselves, and others are community activists and vaccine researchers.
There is also an excellent profile on Nelson Mandela. Nolen's main mission here is to show that although thousands of people die of AIDS in Africa ever day (5500/day is the stat that she uses), it is completely and totally devastating in the same way it would be if you were to start losing your family here. It's not really something that people can get completely used to. She also shows how the response to the epidemic has been less or more effective in different countries-there are 2 particularly infuriating stories on South African and Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe initially had a comprehensive response to the disease, but now it is almost completely absent due to Mugabe's corruption. Conditions are so bad that aid groups are pulling out and people die when ARVs are at the pharmacy down the street b/c of hyperinflation.
Although conditions in South Africa are now different, years of leadership under Mbeki insisting that HIV didn't cause AIDS and that sick people should rely on 'traditional' cures have taken their toll.So, long story short, read it! This book is astounding, so I am reading it again. Hards words to absorb in 2018. Has progress been made? Started with a later chapter about Nelson Mandela. Yes he missed his first opportunity to address the aids crisis directly but in shepherding in a change in government and reconciliation, he helped improve the lives of all South Africans. So now they can have lives that are valued and can push forward to better address the aids crisis together.
Sadly, Mandela is still one of few world leader This book is astounding, so I am reading it again. Hards words to absorb in 2018.
Has progress been made? Started with a later chapter about Nelson Mandela. Yes he missed his first opportunity to address the aids crisis directly but in shepherding in a change in government and reconciliation, he helped improve the lives of all South Africans. So now they can have lives that are valued and can push forward to better address the aids crisis together. Sadly, Mandela is still one of few world leaders who have Aids and health care of african born people as a priority. I find this scary. How is it that misplaced sexual and moral judgement continues to this day to play such a smothering role, putting the brakes on medical and social progress in education, prevention and treatment.
We know so much more, but still fear and condemnation and religious misdirection, hampers the spread of simple information and even condoms. Children are suffering, whole societies are suffering. It seems overwhelming. The numbers are incomprehensible.
Author Nolan is noble and adept at rendering those stories into individuals. It is real and it is a great bit of writing about crushing losses and life.
Simply presented, but utterly compelling. '28' is the story of 28 people living with AIDS in Africa. Because at the time the book was written, there were 28 million people around the world living with HIV. At first, you think that this is just a collection of human interest stories.
But in fact, these 28 stories of how HIV and AIDS have impacted these people's lives only serve as the velvet-covered handrail you hold on to as you follow the staircase down, down, down into the real issues Simply presented, but utterly compelling. '28' is the story of 28 people living with AIDS in Africa. Because at the time the book was written, there were 28 million people around the world living with HIV.
At first, you think that this is just a collection of human interest stories. But in fact, these 28 stories of how HIV and AIDS have impacted these people's lives only serve as the velvet-covered handrail you hold on to as you follow the staircase down, down, down into the real issues that AIDS has brought to the surface: racial and gender inequality, crushing cultural and religious beliefs, economic policies and World Bank decisions. Ms Nolen shows how AIDS is the fulcrum which has allowed all these factors to combine to nearly destroy a continent. I have worked in the field of AIDS for a dozen years, but I still learned a great deal. You care about the people whose stories she presents, but, even more, you begin to understand how this disease has warped an entire generation - not just in Africa but around the world - and we begin to sense the terrible price that our generation and the ones that follow will have to pay for our ignorance and neglect. When I was assigned this to read for my Literature and Medicine class, I thought 'Oh, not another AIDS story in Africa.'
I instantly guessed that Stephanie Nolen, the author, was white, and I had NO desire to read a book on AIDS in Africa by a white person. NONE AT ALL.But I need to pass my class.So I read it; it kind of surprised me.
I liked that Nolen explored personal stories of HIV/AIDS experiences exclusively, dedicating a chapter to each story. Also, she named each When I was assigned this to read for my Literature and Medicine class, I thought 'Oh, not another AIDS story in Africa.' I instantly guessed that Stephanie Nolen, the author, was white, and I had NO desire to read a book on AIDS in Africa by a white person. NONE AT ALL.But I need to pass my class.So I read it; it kind of surprised me. I liked that Nolen explored personal stories of HIV/AIDS experiences exclusively, dedicating a chapter to each story.
Also, she named each chapter after the full name of the person she interviewed and placed the interviewee's picture at the very beginning of that chapter. This made the interviewee seem like an actual individual with whom we can actually relate, and not simply 'The African'.Overall, it was an okay read.
I'm just miffed at how HIV/AIDS is handled in my motherland, the international community's response to it (namely the 'Western countries'), and the neoliberal agenda imposed upon my folk by the very people that are supposed to help them. You think aid money is free? Nope, there's always a price. Stephanie Nolen has crafted a series of haunting, absorbing and deeply moving profiles of people from many walks of life and circumstances (from a truck driver to a doctor to a beleagured grandmother to Nelson Mandela), all dealing with the scourge of HIV/AIDS in their lives and communities.
I anticipated that this book might be a depressing read, but the individuals profiled are engaging and inspiring, even as their stories wrench at your heart.Still, the societal forces that contin Stephanie Nolen has crafted a series of haunting, absorbing and deeply moving profiles of people from many walks of life and circumstances (from a truck driver to a doctor to a beleagured grandmother to Nelson Mandela), all dealing with the scourge of HIV/AIDS in their lives and communities. I anticipated that this book might be a depressing read, but the individuals profiled are engaging and inspiring, even as their stories wrench at your heart.Still, the societal forces that continue to allow the disease to spread through neglect, fear, prejudice, ignorance and worse are infuriating, and.that. is depressing.
What the 28 individuals exemplify and what Nolen exhorts at the end of the book is that the most vital thing we can all do to fight this pandemic is to fearlessly and persistently talk about it. She also details and personally endorses AIDS care and treatment organizations in Africa that probably deserve everyone's support. This was a fantastic book. I was really moved, inspired, and saddened by the Africans in this book living with AIDS. Each story, very well-written, represents one million Africans who have died of AIDS-needlessly. The tragedy and aftermath of AIDS ripples far beyond the immediate families leaving an entire generation of children to care for one another and fend for themselves and entire villages of grandparents caring for the children of their children who have died of AIDS. Each story is diffe This was a fantastic book.
I was really moved, inspired, and saddened by the Africans in this book living with AIDS. Each story, very well-written, represents one million Africans who have died of AIDS-needlessly. The tragedy and aftermath of AIDS ripples far beyond the immediate families leaving an entire generation of children to care for one another and fend for themselves and entire villages of grandparents caring for the children of their children who have died of AIDS. Each story is different, highlighting the different ways that this disease has moved like wildfire ravaging an entire continent.
I was incredibly inspired and awed by the courage, feistiness, and commitment to serve others demonstrated by the people featured in the stories. Without a doubt, some of these stories will leave you in tears. This should be a must read for everyone. As a former Peace Corps Volunteer who worked with HIV and AIDS in Africa, this book both echoed my own experiences and provided me with even more information about the pandemic than I had already gathered. Well written with a journalistic but still personal focus, this book takes readers into intimate and painful situations with people from all over the continent. It provides both a technical and emotional picture of AIDS in Africa, from the causes to the attempts being made the stop the spread As a former Peace Corps Volunteer who worked with HIV and AIDS in Africa, this book both echoed my own experiences and provided me with even more information about the pandemic than I had already gathered. Well written with a journalistic but still personal focus, this book takes readers into intimate and painful situations with people from all over the continent.
It provides both a technical and emotional picture of AIDS in Africa, from the causes to the attempts being made the stop the spread of the disease. I was truly impressed by this book and by the lack of pity or typical Western perspective that so many books of its kind slather all over this topic. It's humane but critical, eye opening and analytical.
Regardless of one's experience with HIV and AIDS or Africa, this book should interest and educate. Having sat in on the author's review of this book, I couldn't help but purchase it. She was so dynamic and had so many interesting stories. The author of this book is the only western journalist with a regular column on AIDS in Africa.
Having studied journalism in school, this idea was particularly striking to me. There are so many stories behind the cut and dry story, and those are what I wanted to hear.Not only that, but being a journalist, she put the disease and its causes, in ways that mad Having sat in on the author's review of this book, I couldn't help but purchase it. She was so dynamic and had so many interesting stories. The author of this book is the only western journalist with a regular column on AIDS in Africa. Having studied journalism in school, this idea was particularly striking to me. There are so many stories behind the cut and dry story, and those are what I wanted to hear.Not only that, but being a journalist, she put the disease and its causes, in ways that made it easy for me to understand and relate to this tragety.
It was well written and smart. The kind of book you could pick up and read a few chapters (each chapter is a different story of someone who has been touched by AIDS in Africa), and then put down. And then pick it up again.I really enjoyed learning more about what is going on through this book.
This book, along with There Is No Me Without You, is one I think everyone ought to read. It was born out of Nolen's six years of traveling across Africa researching the AIDS crisis.
She shares with us the stories of just 28 of the people she encountered, representing the 28 million living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. It is impossible not to be moved by this book. I loved it because it puts faces on the often-heard phrase 'African AIDS crisis', but it is so much more than that.
It shows how in many o This book, along with There Is No Me Without You, is one I think everyone ought to read. It was born out of Nolen's six years of traveling across Africa researching the AIDS crisis. She shares with us the stories of just 28 of the people she encountered, representing the 28 million living with HIV/AIDS in Africa.
It is impossible not to be moved by this book. I loved it because it puts faces on the often-heard phrase 'African AIDS crisis', but it is so much more than that.
It shows how in many of these countries AIDS is merely a symptom of much bigger problems and gives snapshots of culture from many different African countries and lifestyles. I earnestly hope that reading this book will cause you to begin asking the question: 'how can I begin to actively love my neighbors in Africa?'
From one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists – comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It is essential reading for our times.In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail’s Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face to the crisis created by HIV-AIDS in Africa. She has achieved, in this amazing book, something extraordinary: she writes with a power, understanding and simplicity that makes us listen, makes us understand and care. Through riveting anecdotal stories – one for each of the million people living with HIV-AIDS in Africa – Nolen explores the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in magnitude. It is a calamity that is unfolding just a 747-flight away, and one that will take the lives of these 28 million without the help of massive, immediate intervention on an unprecedented scale.
28 is a timely, transformative, thoroughly accessible book that shows us definitively why we continue to ignore the growth of HIV-AIDS in Africa only at our peril and at an intolerable moral cost.28’s stories are much more than a record of the suffering and loss in 28 emblematic lives. Here we meet women and men fighting vigorously on the frontlines of disease: Tigist Haile Michael, a smart, shy 14-year-old Ethiopian orphan fending for herself and her baby brother on the slum streets of Addis Ababa; Alice Kadzanja, an HIV-positive nurse in Malawi, where one in six adults has the virus, and where the average adult’s life expectancy is 36; and Zackie Achmat, the hero of South Africa’s politically fragmented battle against HIV-AIDS.28 also tells us how the virus works, spreads and, ultimately, kills. It explains the connection of HIV-AIDS to conflict, famine and the collapse of states; shows us how easily treatment works for those lucky enough to get it and details the struggles of those who fight to stay alive with little support. It makes vivid the strong, desperate people doing all they can, and maintaining courage, dignity and hope against insurmountable odds. It is – in its humanity, beauty and sorrow – a call to action for all who read it.
SummaryFrom one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists - comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It is essential reading for our times. In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail' s Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face to the crisis created by HIV-AIDS in Africa.
She has achieved, in this amazing book, something extraordinary: she writes with a power, understanding and simplicity that makes us listen, makes us understand and care. Through riveting anecdotal stories - one for each of the million people living with HIV-AIDS in Africa - Nolen explores the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in magnitude.
It is a calamity that is unfolding just a 747-flight away, and one that will take the lives of these 28 million without the help of massive, immediate intervention on an unprecedented scale. 28 is a timely, transformative, thoroughly accessible book that shows us definitively why we continue to ignore the growth of HIV-AIDS in Africa only at our peril and at an intolerable moral cost. 28' s stories are much more than a record of the suffering and loss in 28 emblematic lives. Here we meet women and men fighting vigorously on the frontlines of disease: Tigist Haile Michael, a smart, shy 14-year-old Ethiopian orphan fending for herself and her baby brother on the slum streets of Addis Ababa; Alice Kadzanja, an HIV-positive nurse in Malawi, where one in six adults has the virus, and where the average adult' s life expectancy is 36; and Zackie Achmat, the hero of South Africa' s politically fragmented battle against HIV-AIDS. 28 also tellsus how the virus works, spreads and, ultimately, kills. It explains the connection of HIV-AIDS to conflict, famine and the collapse of states; shows us how easily treatment works for those lucky enough to get it and details the struggles of those who fight to stay alive with little support. It makes vivid the strong, desperate people doing all they can, and maintaining courage, dignity and hope against insurmountable odds.
It is - in its humanity, beauty and sorrow - a call to action for all who read it. Table of ContentsWhy 28p.
11 Siphiwe Hlophep. 192 Tigist Haile Michaelp. 313 Mohammed Alip.
414 Prisca Mhlolop. 525 Regine Mambap. 676 Lydia Munghererap. 737 Noe Sebisabap. 838 Christine Amisip.
999 Manuel Cossap. 11310 Cynthia Leshomop. 12511 Mfanimpela Thlabatsep. 13712 Andualem Ayalewp. 14113 Alice Kadzanjap. 15514 Zackie Achmatp. 16715 Lefa Khoelep.
18716 Pontiano Kaleebup. 19717 Winstone Zulup. 21118 Agnes Munyivap. 22519 Mpho Segomelap.
23920 Anne Mumbip. 24321 Gideon Byamugishap. 25722 Ida Mukukap.
26923 Anita Manhicap. 27724 Morolake Odetoyinbop. 28925 Moleen Mudimup. 29726 Ibrahim Umorup.
30927 Nelson Mandelap. 31328 Thokozani Mthiyanep. 353How You Can Helpp. 369 First Chapter or ExcerptWhy28 I looked at AIDS in Africa for a long time before I understood what I was seeing. That moment came on the shady porch of a small mud-brick house in a village called Nkhotakota in Malawi, early in 2002. The house belonged to Lillian Chandawili. She was thirty-five years old, and I met her through the local AIDS organization.
We sat in the softening heat of the late afternoon and she told me how she was raising her five children on her own-her husband was gone. She confided that she was plagued by diarrhea and a racking cough; some days she barely had the strength to lift a hoe, but her little plot of land was the only source of food for her family. While we talked, Lillian's children ventured up to sit near us, and neighbours and relatives stopped by, polite and eager to greet a visitor. There were a great many children. Lillian explained that in addition to her five she was raising two of her late sister's children and two orphaned cousins.
She laid one gentle hand on their heads as they crept in close-'This one has it,' she said. 'And this one, I think he's infected.'
When the neighbours moved on, she gestured with a lift of her chin at one or another-'She is infected. He is positive. Her husband is dying.
He lost his wife.' And as I listened, I suddenly understood that it wasn't just Lillian and the dozen people in her support group in Nkhotakota who had AIDS. On paper, it was one in six adults in Malawi. But in this village, it was hundreds of people. If they weren't sick themselves, they were caring for the sick.
They were sheltering their sisters' orphans, their dead brother's young wife and baby. One way or another, everyone had the disease.
And it meant that they earned less, that they grew less food, that fewer children went to school, that no one had any savings. Lillian talked of all the people who had 'passed,' and I had a sense of a community quietly evaporating around me. A few days later, in the Malawian capital, Lilongwe, I set out early one morning for the main hospital, where the lone doctor in charge had agreed to speak to me about the country's HIV epidemic. When I got to the hospital, however, no one was quite sure where he was, and people suggested I try one ward or another, check this corridor or that office. I wandered the halls in a state of growing horror. I had by that point seen many basic and overcrowded African hospitals, but never anything like this. There were people everywhere: three to a bed, lying head to foot to head; under the beds, lying on grass mats in the stairwells and in the verandas off the wards.
They were bone thin and covered in lesions and abscesses. As I stepped gingerly among them, they shifted their heads slightly to look up at me through eyes grown huge in sunken faces. I could not find the doctor; I did find a nurse-perhaps the only nurse-who was stout and slovenly and clearly drunk, her hairpiece of copper curls askew. Looking around the ward, I couldn't blame her: it was barely 8 a.m., but I felt in desperate need of a stiff drink myself. I had realized, long before that day, that AIDS was a unique and savage phenomenon in Africa.
Back in 1998, in a rural hospital in Tanzania, the chief medical officer had led me on a tour of the wards. In one, we passed rows of antique but tidy beds lined up under billowy mosquito nets. Then we came to three men off by themselves, lying in a row on a thin mat on the floor. Their legs were like twigs, and their breathing was audible from the other side of the room.
I was puzzled at first, and stopped in front of them. Then realized what this must be.
'Do they have AIDS?' The doctor and his assistants whipped around. A nurse seized my arm and began to pull me out of the ward. ' Shh, shh, shh,' she scolded. Digimon world 3 psp.
'You can't just say that word.' The sight of those men stayed with me. Over the next few years, I kept going back to Africa, drawn to what I began to believe was the biggest story in the world.
Not the wars or the refugee crises that occasionally-very occasionally-made the evening news back home, but the slow, almost incalculable devastation that HIV/AIDS was wreaking in country after country I visited. I know something about what makes news.
In the fifteen years I have worked as a journalist, I have reported on some of the biggest stories in the world. I watched Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization move into the West Bank after making peace with Israel in the early 1990s. I saw tentative women venture out of their homes for the first time in five years as the Taliban lost their hold on Afghanistan.
I watched Saddam Hussein's army flee Baghdad in the face of an onslaught of U.S. There is an undeniable thrill that comes with being in the centre of the big story.
But nothing I was sent to cover anywhere in the world compared to what I saw AIDS doing in sub-Saharan Africa. And yet this story never made the news at all.
In 2003, I persuaded my editors at The Globe and Mail that we were missing something important. They did not yet share my conviction about the urgency of the story, but they were willing to let me try to tell it. I moved to Johannesburg and began what would turn out to be years of travel through the heart of the epidemic: the Swazi villages, the slums outside Durban, the highlands of Lesotho, the urban hospitals of Botswana. I found hundreds and hundreds of communities like Nkhotakota on the verge of disappearing. I knew people in North America who had been living with HIV for years, taking antiretroviral medication that does not cure AIDS but will keep a person with HIV healthy for decades. But no one in Africa had the drugs.
No one was even talking about getting them the drugs. AIDS was a fully preventable illness at home. But in Africa, it was a plague, and people like Lillian Chandawili could do little but sit and watch its inexorable progression. And I began to wonder how this could be happening-how we could be letting this happen-almost entirely unremarked. Excerpted from 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
Map showing the seaborne migration and expansion of the beginning at around 3000 BCNavigation in the began with the maritime migrations of the from who spread southwards into and during a period between 3000 to 1000 BC. Their first long-distance voyaging was the colonization of from the at around 1500 BC. By about 900 BC their descendants had spread more than 6,000 kilometers across the Pacific, reaching. In this region, a distinctive developed.
Within the next few centuries Polynesians reached, and possibly. Polynesian navigators used a range of tools and methods, including observation of birds, star navigation, and use of waves and swells to detect nearby land. Songs, mythological stories, and star charts were used to help people remember important navigational information.
Meanwhile, Austronesians in Island Southeast Asia began the first true maritime trade networks by about 1000 BC, linking, the, and coastal. Settlers from reached by the early 1st millennium AD and colonized it by AD 500. Mediterranean Sailors navigating in the Mediterranean made use of several techniques to determine their location, including staying in sight of land and understanding of the winds and their tendencies. Of are an example of an early Western civilization that used celestial navigation. Their palaces and mountaintop exhibit architectural features that align with the rising sun on the, as well as the rising and setting of particular stars. The Minoans made sea voyages to the island of and to. Both of these trips would have taken more than a day's sail for the Minoans and would have left them traveling by night across open water.
Here the sailors would use the locations of particular stars, especially those of the constellation, to orient the ship in the correct direction.Written records of navigation using stars, or, go back to 's where tells to keep the Bear (Ursa Major) on his left hand side and at the same time to observe the position of the, the late-setting and the as he sailed eastward from her island traversing the Ocean. The poet wrote in his Phainomena in the third century BC detailed positions of the constellations as written. The positions described do not match the locations of the stars during Aratus' or Eudoxos' time for the Greek mainland, but some argue that they match the sky from during the. This change in the position of the stars is due to the on its axis which affects primarily the. Around 1000 BC the constellation would have been closer to the than.
The pole stars were used to navigate because they did not disappear below the horizon and could be seen consistently throughout the night.By the third century BC the Greeks had begun to use the Little Bear, to navigate. In the mid-1st century AD writes of who questions a sailor about the use of stars in navigation. The sailor replies with his description of the use of to navigate. To navigate along a degree of latitude a sailor would have needed to find a circumpolar star above that degree in the sky. For example, would have used to navigate as he traveled west from the mouth of the to.The voyage of the navigator is a particularly notable example of a very long, early voyage. A competent astronomer and geographer, Pytheas ventured from Greece through the strait of Gibraltar to Western Europe and the British Isles.
Pytheas is the first known person to describe the, and possibly. Pytheas also introduced the idea of distant ' to the geographic imagination and his account is the earliest to state that the moon is the cause of the tides.' S celebrated voyage from to after 's expedition in India is preserved in 's account, the. Greek navigator explored the Arabian Sea for, king of the in. According to, later reported in 's, the of the Indian Ocean was first sailed by Eudoxus of Cyzicus in 118 or 116 BC.and textual descriptions known as sailing directions have been in use in one form or another since the sixth century BC. Nautical charts using stereographic and orthographic projections date back to the second century BC.In 1900, the was recovered from.
This mechanism was built around 1st century BC.Phoenicia and Carthage The and their successors, the, were particularly adept sailors and learned to voyage further and further away from the coast in order to reach destinations faster. One tool that helped them was the. This tool was bell shaped, made from stone or lead, with inside attached to a very long rope. When out to sea, sailors could lower the sounding weight in order to determine how deep the waters were, and therefore estimate how far they were from land. Also, the tallow picked up sediments from the bottom which expert sailors could examine to determine exactly where they were.
The Carthaginian is known to have sailed through the c. 500 BC and explored the Atlantic coast of Africa. There is general consensus that the reached at least as far as.
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There is a lack of agreement whether the furthest limit of Hanno's explorations was or Guinea's 890-metre (2910-foot) Mount Kakulima. Asia In the and Indian Ocean, a navigator could take advantage of the fairly constant monsoon winds to judge direction. This made long one-way voyages possible twice a year. Medieval age of navigation.
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Further information:, andThe significantly contributed to, and had extending from the Atlantic Ocean and in the west to the Indian Ocean and China Sea in the east, Apart from the, and, navigable rivers in the Islamic regions were uncommon, so transport by sea was very important. And navigational sciences made use of a magnetic and a rudimentary instrument known as a, used for and for measuring the and of the.
The kamal itself was simple to construct. It was a rectangular piece of either bone or wood which had a string with 9 consecutive knots attached to it. Another instrument available, developed by the Arabs as well, was the quadrant. Also a celestial navigation device, it was originally developed for astronomy and later transitioned to navigation.
When combined with detailed maps of the period, sailors were able to sail across oceans rather than skirt along the coast. Muslim sailors were also responsible for the use and development of the sails and large three- to the Mediterranean. The origins of the ship, developed and used for long-distance travel by the Portuguese, and later by the rest of Iberians, since the 15th century, also date back to the qarib used by explorers by the 13th century.The sea lanes between and neighboring lands were the usual form of trade for many centuries, and are responsible for the widespread influence of to the societies of Southeast Asia. Powerful navies included those of the, and.used polarization and the to allow navigation of their ships by locating the Sun even in a completely overcast sky.
This special was talked about in several 13th – 14th-century written sources in, some centuries after the carbon-dated, early-11th-century Norse settlement of in northernmost had been briefly established.In China between 1040 and 1117, the was being developed and applied to navigation. This let masters continue sailing a course when the weather limited visibility of the sky. The true mariner's compass using a pivoting needle in a dry box was invented in Europe no later than 1300.Nautical charts called began to appear in at the end of the 13th century. However, their use did not seem to spread quickly: there are no reports of the use of a nautical chart on an English vessel until 1489.
Age of exploration. Fairly accurate maps of the Americas were being drawn in the early 17th century.The commercial activities of in the early 15th century marked an epoch of distinct progress in practical navigation for Europeans. These exploration and trade expeditions sent out by led first to the discovery of (near Madeira) in 1418, rediscovery of the in 1427, the discovery of the Islands in 1447 and in 1462. 's 1701 map charting magnetic variation from true northIn 1714 the British came into prominence. This group, which existed until 1828, offered grants and rewards for the solution of navigational problems. Between 1737 and 1828, the commissioners disbursed some £101,000. The government of the United Kingdom also offered significant rewards for navigational accomplishments in this era, such as £20,000 for the discovery of the and £5,000 for the navigator that could sail within a degree of latitude of the.
A widespread manual in the 18th century was Navigatio Britannica by, published in 1750 by and still being advertised in 1787.invented a reflecting quadrant around 1699. He wrote a detailed description of the instrument for, which was published in 1742.
Due to this time lapse, credit for the invention has often been given instead to. The octant eventually replaced earlier and, and had the immediate effect of making latitude calculations much more accurate.A highly important breakthrough for the accurate determination of longitude came with the invention of the. The 1714 offer for a method of determining longitude at sea, was won by, a Yorkshire carpenter. He submitted a project in 1730, and in 1735 completed a clock based on a pair of counter-oscillating weighted beams connected by springs whose motion was not influenced by gravity or the motion of a ship. His first two sea timepieces H1 and H2 (completed in 1741) used this system, but he realised that they had a fundamental sensitivity to, which meant that they could never be accurate enough at sea.Harrison solved the precision problems with his much smaller H4 chronometer design in 1761. H4 looked much like a large five-inch (12 cm) diameter pocket watch. In 1761, Harrison submitted H4 for the £20,000 longitude prize.
His design used a fast-beating balance wheel controlled by a temperature-compensated spiral spring. These features remained in use until stable allowed very accurate portable timepieces to be made at affordable cost. In 1767, the published a description of his work in The Principles of Mr. Harrison's time-keeper.In 1757, invented the first.This replaced the Davis quadrant and the octant as the main instrument for navigation. The was derived from the octant in order to provide for the.
With the lunar distance method, mariners could determine their longitude accurately. Once chronometer production was established in the late 18th century, the use of the chronometer for accurate determination of longitude was a viable alternative. Chronometers replaced lunars in wide usage by the late 19th century.In 1891 radios, in the form of wireless telegraphs, began to appear on ships at sea.In 1899 the R.F. Matthews was the first ship to use wireless communication to request assistance at sea. Using radio for determining direction was investigated by 'Sir, of England; Andre Blondel, of France;, Pickard; and, of the United States; and Bellini and Tosi, of Italy.' The Stone Radio & Telegraph Company installed an early prototype on the naval collier Lebanon in 1906.By 1904 time signals were being sent to ships to allow navigators to check their chronometers. Navy Hydrographic Office was sending navigational warnings to ships at sea by 1907.Later developments included the placing of and close to shore to act as marine signposts identifying ambiguous features, highlighting hazards and pointing to safe channels for ships approaching some part of a coast after a long sea voyage.
In 1912 was awarded the for his invention of automatic valves designed to be used in combination with gas accumulators in lighthouses1921 saw the installation of the first radiobeacon.The first prototype shipborne radar system was installed on the USS Leary in April 1937.On November 18, 1940 Mr. Loomis made the initial suggestion for an electronic air navigation system which was later developed into (long range navigation system) by the Radiation Laboratory of the, and on November 1, 1942 the first LORAN System was placed in operation with four stations between the.
A 1943 United States military map of and, as they were known at the time.In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik. Scientists at took a series of measurements of Sputnik's yielding the satellite's position and velocity. This team continued to monitor Sputnik and the next satellites into space, Sputnik II and Explorer I. In March 1958 the idea of working backwards, using known satellite orbits to determine an unknown position on the Earth's surface began to be explored. This led to the TRANSIT system. The first TRANSIT satellite was placed in polar orbit in 1960.
The system, consisting of 7 satellites, was made operational in 1962. A navigator using readings from three satellites could expect accuracy of about 80 feet.On July 14, 1974 the first prototype Navstar GPS satellite was put into orbit, but its clocks failed shortly after launch. The Navigational Technology Satellite 2, redesigned with cesium clocks, started to go into orbit on June 23, 1977. By 1985, the first 11-satellite GPS Block I constellation was in orbit.Satellites of the similar Russian system began to be put into orbit in 1982, and the system is expected to have a complete 24-satellite constellation in place by 2010. The expects to have its with 30 satellites in place by 2011/12 as well. Integrated bridge systems Electronic integrated bridge concepts are driving future navigation system planning. Integrated systems take inputs from various ship sensors, electronically display positioning information, and provide control signals required to maintain a vessel on a preset course.
The navigator becomes a system manager, choosing system presets, interpreting system output, and monitoring vessel response. See also.
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