Ideological blinders have led to millions of preventable AIDS deaths in Africa. Dr. Edward C. Green, former director of the Harvard AIDS Prevention Project, describes how Western AIDS "experts" stubbornly pursued ineffective remedies and sabotaged the most successful AIDS prevention program on that ravaged continent. He calls for new emphasis on promoting sexual fidelity-the only strategy (besides male circumcision) shown to work there.
Edward C. Green is former director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard School of Health and the author of six previous books, including Rethinking AIDS Prevention, AIDS and STDs in Africa, and AIDS, Behavior, and Culture. For more than 30 years, he has worked in the field of applied anthropology and international health, conducting research in Africa, Southeast Asia, and other parts of the world. He has served on boards of directors and advisory boards for many organizations, including the Presidential Advisory Council for HIV/AIDS, the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health, the UNAIDS AIDS 2031 Steering Committee, AIDS.org, and the Global Initiative for Traditional Systems of Health.
