Anyone who wants to understand the terrible closed circle of denial and death should read this book - -- R.W. Johnson * THE SUNDAY TIMES *
... the best book yet written on the struggle to control -- Alex de Waal * THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *
Campbell's thesis is that a complexity of multi-level processes influence HIV transmission and that, unless addressed, they hamper the most well-meaning efforts to dislodge the epidemic's grip. ... The old ways of understanding and responding to this epidemic have not gained us sufficient ground against it sufficiently quickly. There is much that can be learnt and applied in this thoughtful and challenging analysis. If we are to make headway against its ravages we must take this book seriously. - -- Elizabeth Reid * ARAS Australia *
It took courage to document and write about such a failure in a world enamoured of best practices . ...Letting Them Die is a most useful, challenging, and thought-provoking book. It compels us to listen to people, think out of the box, looks for new practices (p. 195), and muster our drive and energies to design HIV/AIDS programmes that work faster than the epidemic. - -- John F. May * The World Bank, in POPULATION STUDIES *
Catherine Campbell's book is a superb analysis of community development initiatives and challenges surrounding HIV programmes. The material for this book is well researched and intelligently summarised. There are few books documenting the challenges of HIV programmes and Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail provides an important and compelling contribution to this body of literature. - -- Rebecca Tiessen * THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH *
...a forceful presentation of a theoretically well-informed and comprehensively researched critique of the participatory community development approach to HIV prevention. It will be valuable not only for those with a particular interest in HIV/AIDS management, but also for those with a more general interest in the possibilities and limitations of the partnerships and participation as community development strategies. - -- Jo Beall * JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT *
This important book, which should be read by all in community-based work, describes a project that tried and failed to reduce the risk of HIV infection amongst three groups in a mining town in South Africa - female sex workers, male miners, and young people. - -- Tony Klouda * DEVELOPMENT & CHANGE *
