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Drugs into Bodies Global AIDS Treatment Activism
Raymond A. Smith, Patricia D. Siplon
Afterword by Alan Berkman
Book Code: C8325
ISBN: 0-275-98325-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98325-3
212 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2006
List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • This activist's manual by Smith and Siplon -the title of which refers to an AIDS slogan-is divided into two parts: "Building a Domestic AIDS Treatment Activist Movement" and "Forging a Global AIDS Treatment Activist Network." The book traces the progression of the global AIDS treatment activist movement, paying special attention to the organization Health GAP. It promotes disruptive activists' tactics introduced by the protest group ACT UP, an agenda greatly facilitated by the rise of the Internet and capable of empowering the disenfranchised across national boundaries by encouraging demonstrations and confrontational politics against a profit-driven global economy and antipoor global politics. Social activists will find this book an invaluable resource. For libraries serving that audience.
    —Library Journal     June 1, 2006
  • Drugs Into Bodies: Global AIDS Treatment Activism is a thorough and careful review of the history of AIDS activism viewed through the lens of the authors' beliefs about the socioeconomic forces and politics that have driven the activism around HIV care....Hopefully, in the end, this book will inspire readers to look beyond the moment and push for a solution to the world HIV epidemic, as well as an ongoing commitment to end the epidemic here in the United States.
    —PsycCRITIQUES     August 15, 2007
  • Political scientists Smith and Siplon analyze the rise and success of the second great AIDS treatment activist movement, which advocates making the medicines that have been developed available to everyone who needs them both in the US and throughout the world.
    —SciTech Book News     June 2006
  • Endorsement From Stephen Lewis
    Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for HIV/Aids in Africa:     The heroic struggle to get life-saving AIDS medicines to the millions who need them is a story of principle, courage and obstreperous tenacity. Drugs into Bodies is an illuminating read, filled with lessons about the ways in which barriers to treatment can be overcome, and social justice achieved.
Description: More than 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, yet only a small fraction have access to life-saving treatments. For many years, governments, pharmaceutical companies, and even some international relief agencies have called this a tragic but unavoidable situation, given the high cost of the medications used to fight HIV. A small but growing group of activists, however, have banded together to prove that the obstacles to universal HIV treatments are mostly human-made, and thus can be overcome by human actions. Drugs into Bodies chronicles the birth and expansion of the global AIDS treatment activist movement, focusing in particular on the U.S.-based organization Health GAP. Drawing on the legacy of the protest group ACT UP and other earlier AIDS activism, Health GAP and like-minded allies have forged a global network to combat the AIDS crisis in Africa and throughout the developing world. From the White House to the United Nations, from plush corporate offices to South African shantytowns, AIDS treatment activists have defied the dictates of globalization, altered government policies, shamed multinational corporations, secured funding for treatment, and brought hope to millions of people with HIV.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Building a Domestic AIDS Treatment Activist Movement
  • Action=Life: Responding to AIDS on the Homefront
  • Bridging the Gap: Mobilizing a Global Response
  • Forging a Global AIDS Treatment Activist Network
  • Many Places, One Goal: Connecting Global Actors
  • Win Some, Keep Going: Sustaining Global Treatment Activism
  • Conclusion
  • Afterword: How you can become Involved by Alan Berkman
LC Card Number: 2005034798
LCC Class: RA643
Dewey Class: 362
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