Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic

by Jonny Steinberg

Book Overview

At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga. Home to a few hundred villagers, the majority of them unemployed, it is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416552693
• ISBN13: 9781416552697
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

fantastic book

want to know about how africa deals with AIDS, this book is a must read.

The best book ever written on HIV

This is the best and most enlightening book on HIV available today. Steinberg outdoes himself, especially within explaining something that is otherwise inexplicable: the high infection rate of HIV in Southern Africa. Steinberg's approach is that of a true journalist, and we are left with a complex, unjudging portrait of an incredibly intricate story laced with race, history, culture, myth, belief, medicine, superstition and politics. Buy it for everyone you know...

Brilliant

The fundamental question that Mr Steinberg wrestles with is why people may choose not to take drugs that may preempt death. His honesty, sensitivity and tenacity enable him to explore the dynamics of a rural South African community in a way that I've not encountered. And yes, the man can write.

Should be required reading for all world leaders!

Heartwrenching account of the conflicts between modern medicine and daily life in Africa in the midst of the worlds most horrific AIDS epidemic. A stirring call for action and compassion. Should be required reading for all world leaders.