New Book Blames Colonization for Spread of AIDS in Africa
Last updated on: July 21, 2012 7:40 PM
Protestors demand free HIV/AIDS treatment for persons living with HIV in Abuja, Nigeria (Dec 5, 2005). (George Osodi / AP Photo)
For European colonizers, Africa’s forests held the promise of untold riches – ivory, rubber and minerals. But unknown to the fortune seekers, those forests also held a virus that would claim over 30 million lives since the global spread of the HIV epidemic.
Craig Timberg and Dr. Daniel Halperin say European rule in Africa led to a number of social and economic changes that facilitated the spread of the virus. They're the authors of a new book on the origins of rearch of virus called Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It.
A man buys bush meat at a market in Yopougon, Abidjan May 27, 2006. Researchers say the AIDS virus originated in wild apes in Cameroon and then spread to hunters who killed the animals and marketed the meat. (Photo Luc Gnago / REUTERS)
Halperin is a medical anthropologist and epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina and until recently the Harvard School of Public Health. He also worked in AIDS-prevention programs in Africa under the administration of President George W. Bush.
A man buys bush meat at a market in Yopougon, Abidjan May 27, 2006. Researchers say the AIDS virus originated in wild apes in Cameroon and then spread to hunters who killed the animals and marketed the meat. (Photo Luc Gnago / REUTERS)
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