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** With a new introduction by Russell T Davies **

A new edition of the award-winning, ground-breaking account of the early AIDS crisis in Britain.

'A remarkable journalistic achievement.' Time Out

'Powerful . . . Indispensable.' Observer

'Superb.' London Review of Books

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize

How does a country control a virus that is killing increasing numbers of people?

How does a government contain an epidemic spread by sex, drug use and blood products?

And how does a population react when told that everyone is at risk from infection?

By 1986, when the British Government woke up to the problem of AIDS, it estimated that 30,000 people had already been infected with HIV. Why was it so slow to act? Would the situation have been different if most of those affected had not been gay men?

Award-winning journalist Simon Garfield presents a story of political in

The End of Innocence

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 01/12/2021
      ISBN13: 9780571371020, 978-0571371020
      ISBN10: 0571371027
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ** With a new introduction by Russell T Davies **

      A new edition of the award-winning, ground-breaking account of the early AIDS crisis in Britain.

      'A remarkable journalistic achievement.' Time Out

      'Powerful . . . Indispensable.' Observer

      'Superb.' London Review of Books

      Winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize

      How does a country control a virus that is killing increasing numbers of people?

      How does a government contain an epidemic spread by sex, drug use and blood products?

      And how does a population react when told that everyone is at risk from infection?

      By 1986, when the British Government woke up to the problem of AIDS, it estimated that 30,000 people had already been infected with HIV. Why was it so slow to act? Would the situation have been different if most of those affected had not been gay men?

      Award-winning journalist Simon Garfield presents a story of political in

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