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On June 5, 1981, the scientific community received a wake-up call from the CDC in the form of a terrible new illness that the world would soon know as AIDS. Three decades later, remarkable progress has been made, but much more remains to be understood and to be done. In this audiobook, we explore where the disease came from, how it works, how it spreads, the search for a vaccine, and cultural and sociological factors.

Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system.

La storia del virus HIV e dell'epidemia di AIDS scoppio all'inizio degli anni Ottanta come un incubo, una spirale di paura e morte che sconvolse il mondo, convertendosi nella più grande epidemia dell'era moderna. Lo sviluppo di farmaci e terapie sempre più efficaci, accompagnati da campagne massicce di prevenzione hanno aiutato, negli ultimi anni, a mantenere relativamente sotto controllo la diffusione dell'epidemia e ad aumentare la durata e la qualità di vita delle persone che convivono con l'HIV/AIDS.