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Degrees Of Uncertainty

Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine
by Jon Cohen
New York: W.W. Norton, 2001), 440 pp., $27.95

The grim statistics on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the world’s poorest nations could be numbing were it not for the human suffering underlying the numbers. Entire communities are facing decimation, men and women are dying in the prime of life, millions of children have been orphaned, and the public health achievements of decades have been wiped from the ledger. It is in Africa where the toll is most awful: More than twenty-four million people are infected with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Ronald Bayer

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