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Elizabeth Pisani (born 1964) is a journalist and epidemiologist best known for her work on HIV/AIDS, in particular for her controversial book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Epidemiology is the study of factors affecting the Health and Illness of populations and serves as the foundation and Logic of interventions made in the ^[1]

Born in the United States and educated in several European countries (leaving her with fluent French and Spanish, to which she has since added Chinese and Indonesian), she graduated from Oxford University with an MA in classical Chinese in 1986. Indonesian or Bahasa Indonesia, based on the Riau version of Malay language, was declared the official language with the declaration of The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the She then worked in Asia and Europe as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, The Economist and the Asia Times. This article is primarily about Reuters prior to its 2008 merger with Thomson The Economist is an English-language weekly news and International affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd and edited in London Asia Times was a Newspaper launched in Thailand by Thai tycoon Sondhi Limthongkul in 1995 During that time she covered major political events such as the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, the civil war in Aceh, Indonesia, as well as a wide range of business stories. Tiananmen Square ( is the large Plaza near the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen (literally Gate of Heavenly Peace See also Sultanate of Aceh Aceh (ʔaˈtɕɛh generally anglicized as ˈɑːtʃeɪ is a special territory ( daerah istimewa) of Indonesia

In the early 1990s, Pisani changed professional course, taking an MSc in Medical Demography the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (she subsequently received her PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the same institution). The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM or the "London School" is a constituent college of the University of London, specialising in An infectious disease is a clinically evident Disease resulting from the presence of Pathogenic microbial agents including Pathogenic viruses Pathogenic Since then she has done research and worked as an advisor for the Ministries of Health of China, Indonesia, East Timor and the Philippines, and for organizations such as the UNAIDS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Bank, and the World Health Organization. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS, or UNAIDS, is the main advocate for accelerated comprehensive and coordinated global action The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services based in unincorporated The World Bank is an internationally supported Bank that provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries for development programs (e Most of her work has focused on HIV, sexually transmitted infections and sexual and drug-taking behaviour, and on building robust disease surveillance systems. Human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) is a Lentivirus (a member of the Retrovirus family that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome A sexually transmitted disease ( STD) or venereal disease ( VD) is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between Humans Human sexual behavior or different human sexual practices encompass a wide range of activities such as strategies to find or attract partners ( Mating and display Drugs can be used in many different ways as detailed below Medication See also Medication People can use drugs to relieve pain or discomfort or to cure

Pisani has written a wide variety of research papers and institutional reports on HIV/AIDS, include the first two editions of the biennial global report on AIDS for the United Nations programme on AIDS (UNAIDS)^[2], as well as technical manuals on disease surveillance and advocacy papers. Disease surveillance is an epidemiological practice by which the spread of Disease is monitored in order to establish patterns of progression

In 2008 she published The Wisdom of Whores, which argues that a substantial portion of the funding devoted to HIV/AIDS is wasted on ineffective programming, the result of science and good public health policy being trumped by politics, ideology, and "morality. " For example, the U. S. spends $65 billion for HIV treatment and prevention in the developing world, but aid recipients, including entire governments, are forbidden from accepting, tolerating or legalizing prostitution, even though organizations of prostitutes are among the most effective ways to educate those most at risk. For prevention, recipients are forbidden from promoting anything but abstinence, even though abstinence has been demonstrated to fail in rigorous scientific studies. These regulations, writes Pisani, were imposed by former AIDS czar Randall Tobias, who resigned after his phone number was found in the listing of a Washington escort service.

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^ Pisani, E The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS. London: Granta and New York: Norton, 2008
^ UNAIDS Report on the global AIDS epidemic. Geneva: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1998, 2000

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