28 stories about AIDS in Africa

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28 Stories about AIDS in Africa is a book by the Canadian journalist Stephanie Nolen . The original English edition was published in Canada in 2007 under the title 28 Stories of Aids in Africa and simultaneously in the USA , Great Britain , France , the Netherlands , Australia and Germany . The book is about the AIDS epidemic in Africa . According to UNAIDS estimates, around 28 million people in Africa were infected with HIV at the end of 2006 . Each story represents a million infected people.

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The book presents the life stories of 28 men, women and children, most of whom are affected by the disease themselves. The author uses the portraits as an opportunity to inform about the conditions for the spread of AIDS in Africa. The selection of information and the arrangement of the life portraits result in a multifaceted picture of the causes and consequences of the disease. The main aim of the book is to draw more attention to the preventable death of the infected. Only about one in four million Africans already suffering from AIDS had access to life-sustaining antiretroviral drugs at the end of 2006 . If left untreated, AIDS leads to death after a short time.

reception

The book was a sales success in Canada and was among the five best-selling non-fiction books in Canada on the bestseller lists of the daily newspapers The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star as well as by the weekly Maclean’s .

After the author visited Germany, an interview on the book appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , which was later reprinted by Spiegel Online . Another interview appeared in Stern . The WDR , the NDR and Germany Kultur put the book down in their radio programs.

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  1. ↑ Prospectus from Piper Verlag ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 249 kB)
  2. ↑ Stephanie Nolen: 28 Stories about AIDS in Africa . Piper, Munich 2007, p. 443
  3. ↑ 5th place in The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star (accessed June 9, 2007)
  4. ↑ 3rd place ( memento of October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at Maclean's in the week of May 10, 2007
  5. ^ Genocide out of indifference - Spiegel Online, June 3, 2007
  6. ↑ Stern - Interview with Kathrin Pohler, June 8, 2007
  7. ↑ day signs. Broadcast. In: www.wdr.de. WDR 3, May 30, 2007, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; Retrieved July 3, 2013 .
  8. ^ Stephanie Nolen: New Books. Broadcast. (No longer available online.) In: www.podcast.de. NDR Kultur, May 30, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 3, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.podcast.de
  9. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur - Review by Kim Kindermann, June 18, 2007