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3228 |
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20250704104411.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781770 130678 |
| Qualifying information |
Paperback |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
RDA |
| Language of cataloging |
ENGLISH |
| Transcribing agency |
3228 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
362.1969792 LAWS |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Lawson, Lesley |
| 9 (RLIN) |
20004 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Side effects: |
| Remainder of title |
the story of AIDS in South Africa |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Cape Town : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Double Storey, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
352 pages |
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Colour Illustrations: |
| Dimensions |
21 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Why does South Africa have one of the worst AIDS epidemics in the world, and why have all the attempts to deal with it led to deepening controversy and strife? Side Effects is an historical account that gets to grip with these vexing questions. It explains how, and why, AIDS conquered one of the richest countries on the African continent. Written in fast-moving journalistic style, it is a tale of the failures of presidents and people; of the legacy of apartheid; of bureaucratic indifference and corporate greed. It lays bare the lost opportunities and fateful decisions that led to mass death at a time when medical and social science had cleared the way to the prevention and treatment of the worst disease ever to have afflicted humankind. Above all, it is the biography of an extraordinary virus. A virus that enters a society, just as it enters the body, at its weakest point: an opportunistic virus that has triumphed over the vulnerabilities of a country in transition. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with key players, Side Effects provides the background to current political controversies about the government's AIDS program. It also gives the first credible explanation for President Mbeki's flirtation with the AIDS denialists, departure that reopened the scientific debate on AIDS at a global level and has set back South Africa's AIDS response by many years.<br/><br/> |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE |
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| Target audience note |
Adult |
| 651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
South Africa |
| 654 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--FACETED TOPICAL TERMS |
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| Source of heading or term |
AIDS (Disease) AIDS (Disease)—Social aspects South Africa History |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
138377 |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) |
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| Source of heading or term |
225054299 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Lesley Lawson, Gail Jennings, John Blignaut, Pulling Rabbits, Ashley Richardson, Creda Communications. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
194821 |
| 710 ## - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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Double Storey |
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194822 |
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Book |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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12663 |
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Priscilla Nozizwe Mogale |