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The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucracies, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
By Elizabeth Pisani
288 pp, $29.95
New York, NY, WW Norton & Co Inc, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-3930-6662-3
JAMA. 2009;301(23):2502-2504.
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In The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucracies, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS, Elizabeth Pisani becomes a whistle-blower to the multibillion-dollar global AIDS industry, in which she has long been an insider. Using keen observation and an epidemiologist's attention to data, Pisani provides a rarely encountered analysis of what has gone wrong with the response to global AIDS and the blind spots that have resulted from political correctness, ideology, and the demands of fundraising. Pisani was brave to write this book and risk condemnation from the very organizations for which she has worked. Some blind spots remain unchallenged, however, including a failure to focus adequately on primary prevention in proposed solutions to halting new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections.
Before joining the newly formed Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in 1996, Pisani was a journalist and in this book admits the exaggeration of facts involved in UNAIDS’ monitoring . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Edward C. Green, PhD, Reviewer
AIDS Prevention Research Project
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Harvard University School of Medicine
Cambridge, Massachusetts
egreen@hsph.harvard.edu
Melissa Farley, PhD, Reviewer
Prostitution Research & Education
San Francisco, California
mfarley@prostitutionresearch.com
Allison Herling Ruark, MSPH, Reviewer
AIDS Prevention Research Project
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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