Shattered Dreams?: An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic

Shattered Dreams?: An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-276

  Oppenheimer, Gerald M ^a   Bayer, Ronald ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Aids; Anti Retroviral Treatment; Epidemic; History; Nurses; Oral Ristory; Physicians; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921351058     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307306.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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