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A review by inkocean
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani
3.0
Pisani is insightful and acerbic in her evaluation of the international HIV/AIDS machine. Some portions of the book dragged a bit, but the heart and soul of Wisdom of Whores cuts to the heart of barriers people face in preventing HIV. The great strength of this work is that she pulls readers back to the root of HIV/AIDS, which is 95%+ sex and drugs. If politicians and policy makers spoke openly and honestly about these topics, then HIV/AIDS probably would wither away within several generations.
She spends 300+ pages building her case, but in the end she fits all of her recommendations onto 3 pages and you really feel that those 3 pages could save the world. Despite the international, multi-billion dollar machine that is the HIV/AIDS aid network, if we talked more honestly about safe sex and drug use, HIV/AIDS doesn't spread.
She spends 300+ pages building her case, but in the end she fits all of her recommendations onto 3 pages and you really feel that those 3 pages could save the world. Despite the international, multi-billion dollar machine that is the HIV/AIDS aid network, if we talked more honestly about safe sex and drug use, HIV/AIDS doesn't spread.