Righteous Rebels

AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World

Patrick Range McDonald (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2016
Prospect Park Books (Verlag)
978-1-938849-93-0 (ISBN)

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"In this thought-provoking portrait of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals the nonprofit's unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the 1980s AIDS crisis in Los Angeles to its position today as an aggressive, global leader in the ongoing fight to control HIV and AIDS. This riveting story highlights the motivations behind AHF's life-saving efforts, its battles against (and alliances with) governments and various political establishments, and its work today to provide free HIV treatment and prevention services to vulnerable, lower-income people in more than thirty countries. With unrestricted, insider access, McDonald follows AHF for a year as it clashes with the Obama administration, the state of Nevada, and the World Health Organization. He interviews AHF's key players, including firebrand president Michael Weinstein, and he travels to AHF outposts around the globe, from Miami to Uganda, Cambodia to Russia, Estonia to South Africa. Along the way, McDonald discovers that AHF is a passionate, smart, and tenacious "people power" organization that brings hope and change to nearly all corners of the world. Beyond its work as a highly effective global AIDS organization, the AHF story also provides a blueprint for every kind of righteous rebel who wants to make the world a better place"--

Patrick Range McDonald is an investigative journalist, former staff writer at LA Weekly, and co-author of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan's memoir. A New Jersey native, the Fordham University graduate lives in West Hollywood, California.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.11.2016
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Paradeso
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	524 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-938849-93-0 / 1938849930
ISBN-13	978-1-938849-93-0 / 9781938849930
Zustand	Neuware