AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer

This is very much an anthropological approach and very insightful culturally. If it is too political at least it is a politics seen from the village, which gives it a certain intrinsic validity if also naïveté. The prejudging of Haitian risk and origin of AIDS is regrettable and sad and unfair. The initial failure to emphasize the role of man-on-man sex in the initial stages is underemphasized (I know, I was there, at that first conference; as I recall, no one could get any index cases to admit sex with men. The account in the book is to me revisionist, though this may be because several papers and meetings are collapsed together and the issue was probably clarified in weeks if not months). Farmer has been there, on the ground and in the huts.