Genocide by Denial: How Profiteering from HIV/AIDS Killed Millions
traces the carnage of HIV/AIDS from its Ugandan epicentre in the
villages of Kasensero, along the shores of Lake Victoria, through
sub-Saharan Africa and onto the rest of the world. The author's
involvement in the struggle against the virus started in 1989, soon
after his return from a long exile in Europe and the Middle East. On
arrival he found the disease devastating his country, compelling him to
fight the modern-age plague. He became one of the leaders in a
protracted fight against the scourge and an advocate for universal
access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy. In this book the author
exposes the incredible self-indulgence of the pharmaceutical companies
and the cold-heartedness of the rich world that turned a blind eye until
it was far too late, and then responded too slowly with too little. The
book details his challenge to the powerful pharmaceutical companies that
insisted on profitable business as usual, ignoring the lives of
millions, and his call for more ethical and humanitarian ways of trade,
involving crucial life-saving drugs, and a new world order to ensure
entitlement of the poor to rapid humanitarian relief.