Broken Promises: How the AIDS Establishment Has Betrayed the Developing World

Harvard University researcher Edward Green shows how four forces—ideology, politics, a fixation on technology, and money—have produced AIDS policy failures in Africa, where two-thirds of all AIDS victims live. Dr. Green calls for a more flexible and empirically based policy focused on promoting fidelity—the only approach that has proven effective in Africa. 

Edward C. Green is former director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard School of Health and the author of six previous books, including Rethinking AIDS Prevention, AIDS and STDs in Africa, and AIDS, Behavior, and Culture. For more than 30 years, he has worked in the field of applied anthropology and international health, conducting research in Africa, Southeast Asia, and other parts of the world. He has served on boards of directors and advisory boards for many organizations, including the Presidential Advisory Council for HIV/AIDS, the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health, the UNAIDS AIDS 2031 Steering Committee, AIDS.org, and the Global Initiative for Traditional Systems of Health.