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The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man’s Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic Audiobook

The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man’s Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic Audiobook

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Dr. Lange graduated from medical school in 1981, correct as a fresh plague swept throughout the world. His tale became intertwined with the story of HIV. At once a physician, scientist, Helps activist, and medical diplomat, Lange analyzed ways to battle HIV and prevent its spread from mother to child. Fighting with each other the injustices of poverty, Lange advocated for better access to health care for the poor and the susceptible. He championed the medication cocktail that finally helped rein in the disease and was a vocal about The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man’s Fight to get rid of the Global HIV Epidemic proponent of prophylactic treatment for those most vulnerable to contracting HIV.

The Impatient Dr. Lange is the story of 1 man’s struggle against a global pandemic-and the tragic assault that may have slowed up the search for a cure. Seema Yasmin graphs the course of the HIV epidemic and Dr. Lange’s profession as a young doctor who blazed his personal path and dedicated his lifestyle to HIV. Yasmin draws on written information, medical journals, documented discussions, expert testimony, and comprehensive interviews with Lange’s family, friends, and colleagues round the globe-including individuals he spoke to in the times before he died. She faithfully reconstructs crucial moments from Lange’s life and the annals of the AIDS epidemic, exposing how Lange became a global innovator in the fight Helps.

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