INTRODUCTION
Larry Krotz, through a career as a writer and documentary film maker, has explored the ways our actions affect our world. Widely traveled, he has become well acquainted with Canada’s north, including numerous First Nations communities, and the African countries of Kenya, Zimbabwe and Angola. Over the years his films, including Searching for Hawa’s Secret for the National Film Board of Canada, have won awards and been aired on Canadian and American television.
NEW BOOK:
Piecing the Puzzle, the genesis of AIDS research in Africa.
In 1979 Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at the University of Nairobi, were introduced to one another by the World Health Organization.
Ronald had just completed a successful project that had cured a nasty genital ulcer epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya’s ‘sexual diseases problem’. That invitation led to a groundbreaking international scientific collaboration that would uncover critical pieces of the complex puzzle that became the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Piecing the Puzzle chronicles the fascinating history of the pioneering Kenyan, Canadian, Belgian and American research team that uncovered HIV/AIDS in Kenya, their scientific breakthroughs and setbacks, and their exceptional thirty year relationship that began a new era of global health collaboration.
This history of the first and longest running HIV/AIDS research project in Africa is published by University of Manitoba Press and available at:
McNallyRobinson.com and
Amazon.ca.
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