Love Is the Cure: Ending the Global AIDS Epidemic
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品牌: Elton John
基本信息出版社:Little, Brown and Company (2012年7月17日)精装:304页正文语种:英语ISBN:0316219908条形码:9780316219907ASIN:0316219908您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Elton John's first book is a deeply personal account of his life during the era of AIDS and an inspiring look at what we must do to bring the epidemic to an end.Elton John has dedicated the past 20 years to overcoming the plague and the stigma of AIDS through his personal efforts and the creation of the EJAF, which has raised and donated nearly a quarter-billion dollars to fighting AIDS worldwide. LOVE IS THE CURE will be the very personal story of Sir Elton's life during the AIDS epidemic, including his agony at seeing friend after friend perish needlessly. Through his stories of close encounters with people like Ryan White, Freddie Mercury, and many others, he will convey the personal toll AIDS has taken on his life--and his infinite determination to stop its spread.
Sir Elton writes, "This is a disease that must be cured not by a miraculous vaccine, but by changing hearts and minds, and through a collective effort to break down social barriers and to build bridges of compassion. Why are we not doing more? This is a question I have thought deeply about, and wish to answer--and to help change--by writing this book."
30 years after the discovery of AIDS the statistics and stories of the lives destroyed and lost to HIV/AIDS are staggering. It has claimed 60 million lives, and there are 34 million HIV-positive people in the world today. For every two people who start treatment, another five contract HIV. Even in the United States, thousands of low-income, HIV-positive Americans are on waiting lists to receive treatment they cannot afford and many have died while waiting.
Elton John founded the EJAF in 1992, and for the past 20 years the foundation has provided information, education, advocacy, condoms, medical care, and emotional support to millions of people, and most especially the people who governments and corporations of the world often ignore--the sex workers, prisoners, young gay men, gay and straight African Americans and many more.作者简介Sir Elton John is one of the most esteemed, beloved, and best-selling songwriters, performers, and recording artists in history. His hits include Gold and Platinum classics "Tiny Dancer," "Crocodile Rock," "Daniel," "I'm Still Standing," and dozens more, and his single "Candle in the Wind 1997," a tribute to his friend Princess Diana, is the best-selling single in Billboard history.
