LIVE from NYPL, Outdoor: LIVE at Bryant Park: Emily Bass and Sheri Fink on the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
Location
This outdoor event takes place in the Bryant Park Reading Room, located between Fifth and Sixth Avenues (behind the Library), near 42nd Street by the yellow umbrellas. Weather permitting.
A map of the park can be found here. There are accessible park entrances midblock on 40th and 42nd Streets, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. To get this information via phone, please call Bryant Park at: 212-768-4242.
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When George W. Bush announced the PEPFAR program in 2003, he launched an astonishingly successful American war against a global pandemic. PEPFAR played a key role in slashing HIV cases and AIDS deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, leading to the brink of epidemic control. Resilient in the face of flatlined funding and political headwinds, PEPFAR is America’s singular example of how to fight long-term plague—and win. Emily Bass discusses the story and her new book, To End a Plague, which she researched in the special collections of The New York Public Library.
No registration required. First come, first served. Produced in partnership with the Bryant Park Reading Room.
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RECOMMENDED READING
- Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman - NYPL Catalog; Bookshare
- Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise and the Rise of Global Health Science by Johanna Crane - NYPL Catalog; Bookshare
- Sizwe's Test by Jonny Steinberg - NYPL Catalog; Bookshare
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Emily Bass has spent more than twenty years writing about and working on HIV/AIDS in America and East and Southern Africa. Her writing has appeared in numerous books and publications including Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Lancet, Esquire, and n+1, and she has received notable mention in Best American Essays. A lifelong social justice activist, Bass has served as an external expert for the World Health Organization and a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do collective. She is the recipient of a Fulbright journalism fellowship and a Martin Duberman Visiting Research Fellowship from the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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