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Volume 360:1367-1368 March 26, 2009 Number 13

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS

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By Elizabeth Pisani. 372 pp. New York, W.W. Norton, 2008. $25.95. ISBN 978-0-393-06662-3.

The Wisdom of Whores is an engaging account of the author's journey through a wide range of positions on the epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and AIDS — and a critique of the many things that have gone wrong in the global battle against the epidemic. To her credit, Pisani is candid about her own contributions to many misguided practices, such as the tendency of international agencies — the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), in particular — to "beat up" the numbers of estimated infections to make a case for the use of financial resources that . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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