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28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
Author	Stephanie Nolen
Published	1 May 2007
Pages	384
ISBN	978-0802715982

28: Stories of AIDS in Africa is a 2007 non-fiction book by Canadian author Stephanie Nolen, Africa correspondent for The Globe and Mail.

The book profiles 28 Africans who have HIV/AIDS, or have otherwise been affected by it. The number 28 was chosen to reflect the 28 million Africans who had HIV in 2007, according to UNAIDS. Nolen spent six years traveling through Africa to gather the stories. The stories range from orphans, a truck driver, a miner, and a grandmother raising her grandchildren alone in poverty, to college educated patients, military members, clergy, and even Nelson Mandela, whose son Makgatho died of AIDS.

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Stephen Lewis described the book as 'the best book ever written about AIDS, certainly the best I've ever read'.^[1]

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Hardcover, Random House, 2007, ISBN978-0-8027-1598-2.
Hardcover, Knopf Canada, 2007, ISBN978-0-676-97822-3.

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^Stephen Lewis Foundation We're Reading (Archived from the original on April 15, 2008)

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From one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists – comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It is essential reading for our times.
In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail’s Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face to the crisis created by HIV-AIDS in Africa. She has achieved, in this amazi..more

Published April 24th 2007 by Knopf Canada

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Stories Of Aids Victims

Graça Machel, wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela and, with him, long time activist in the fight against HIV/AIDS, said: '.. we can't fill all the spaces that are left.' Five and a half thousand people die in Africa every day of AIDS and related diseases, with an estimated 28 million people infected by the HIV virus.
These figures are too overwhelming to comprehend and Stephanie Nolen's book opens an evocative window for us into the struggle, the suffering and the hope of ordi..more

A very thought provoking book full of breathtaking and heart wrenching stories. The book contains 28 stories of individuals suffering from AIDS from various countries across Africa.
Each story will leave you in tears and full of intense emotions. Within all these stories is a hope that things could get better. The things that we take for granted often are things that others haven't even experienced once in their lives.
A must read for everyone.

Mar 14, 2017Courtney Smith rated it it was amazing

Everyone should read this book!! I wish it didn't have to exist, but it does a phenomenal job of highlighting how HIV/AIDS affects people all over Africa. Through examining 28 stories from young to old, you can really understand the way HIV/AIDS spreads and why it is such a problem on this content as compared to others. Maybe if everyone read this book, there would be more pressure put on the world to find vaccines, spermicides, etc. to helping stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.
MUST READ!

Jun 20, 2009Abby rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2009, favorites, non-fiction, canadian, highly-recommended

Personal Stories Of Aids Victims

This is a must-read for everyone. 28: Stories of Aids in Africa is a moving book compiled with stories from 28 Africans affected by AIDS (one story for every million individuals with HIV/AIDS in Africa), beautifully written by Canadian Stephanie Nolen.
Each story was well-crafted while not being wordy. Nolen really put HIV/AIDS into perspective, providing not only moving stories of real people but also providing astounding statistics about the incidence of HIV/AIDS, death rates, and so on. Furthe..more

Nov 18, 2010Diane rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, multi-cultural-not-just-white-peopl

It is probably the best book I’ve ever read about the subject. It’s definitely the best book I’ve read so far this year. The author did an amazing job of humanizing people, including the long-haul truck drivers who are a major factor in the spread of HIV.
The first story was about a woman in Swaziland. The second story was about 2 children in Ethiopia. The third story was about Kenya, the first African country I’d ever visited and what drew me into and kept me tied to the continent. Followed shor..more

Jun 01, 2013Valarie rated it really liked it

This book was well-researched and provided a very interesting perspective of the AIDS pandemic as it manifests in Africa. My only criticism would be that the author primarily interviewed upper-class, highly educated people who could speak English. I understand the limitation of being monolingual and attempting to interview a wide variety of people, but this means the book provided a narrow view of the issue. I read the ebook version, which had a lot of typos and formatting errors.

May 15, 2013Krista Greer rated it it was amazing

This is one of my all time favourite books. It is well composed, thoughtful, and raw. Rather than focusing on how people die from AIDS, the book was able to demonstrate how people, communities and families can live with AIDs without diminishing the importance of the personal and societal struggles that the AIDs epidemic presents.

A little outdated about what HIV in Africa looks like today, but the stories give great context for the first 25 years of the pandemic.

Dec 10, 2018Jennifer Collins rated it it was amazing

Shelves: hiv-aids, on-narrative, trauma, current-issues, epidemics, history, nursing, world-history, biography, cultural-identity

Nolen's 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa is nothing short of incredible. Her approach, her writing, and her weaving of all of the material--personal, political, medical, cultural, environmental, local and global--are nothing short of impeccable. I've read many, many books (fiction and nonfiction) related to HIV/AIDS, many of them specifically connected to Africa and/or African writers, and this book eclipses all of them in nearly every way.
Nolen tells the stories of 28 individuals in Africa, all af..more

Dec 29, 2017Danka rated it it was amazing

This book gives an extraordinary insight into the struggle with HIV/AIDS in Africa. Behind each of the 28 stories the author traces back to the genetic evolution of the virus and its particular strains, its spread throughout the continent, and explores its mysteries on epidemiological and geographical levels, e.g. why its difficult to develop a vaccine after years and years of research; why some people never get infected despite constant exposure to HIV; or why ARVs treatment does not always wor..more

A very informative read on AIDS in Africa. Stephanie Nolen expertly weaves personal stories from people personally living with AIDS or working on the fight to stop it with historical facts on the disease and the science behind the preventative measures that are being developed. Each chapter covers one persons story with the illness as well as different aspects about AIDS treatment or the challenges of making treatment more available to people across Africa. Some of the chapters do not quite have..more

A heavy read but powerful, this book is great for anyone who wants a better undersheriff of HIV/AIDs in Africa.

Sep 20, 2010Marianne rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Anyway, the book (other than the omission of the pages) was truly amazing. I was recommended it by a friend and I have an interest in that sort of thing so I bought it and I honestly didn't think I was as ignorant about the subject as I turned out to be. I always pride myself on being kinda savvy and stuff about world issues but that was completely thrown out the water. It's a great book - and there's stories from everyone from all walks of life in it. A prostitute old enough to be a grandmother..more

Aug 03, 2008Tara Jennings rated it it was amazing

Recommended to Tara by: Stephanie Nolan

Any amazing book of 28 short stories following individuals, families, and communities in Africa forced to deal with AIDS. I found that each story was a perfect length to read before bed. However, before I read the book I thought my dream may be filled with nightmares.. quite the contrary actually. Although the book may appear to be depressing, I found a lot of the stories actually uplifting. The goodness of humanity is represented. I was shocked to find out that the book doesn't just contain sh..more

Nov 05, 2007Kate rated it it was amazing

Shelves: development-humanitarian, non-fiction, favourites, canadian, health-public-health-global-health, unpacking-development-books

Stephen Lewis, the former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, called Stephanie Nole's 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa, 'the best book ever written about AIDS'. I must admit that I was skeptical- how could a relatively short book of stories encapsulate this massive epidemic? By the time I'd finished the third of 28 stories, I'd changed my mind.
Nolen successfully uses 28 human experiences of HIV/AIDS, gathered over years of reporting on the issue, to tackle each aspect of the pandemic: orphans, acc..more

Oct 14, 2011Samantha Koller rated it it was amazing

This book was not what I expected--in a good way. I've read works of non-fiction before that are structured as a collection of profiles of people, and I haven't enjoyed reading them very much because I felt like they didn't provide a lot of context so I didn't learn very much. What was so incredible about 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa was that, underneath the symbolism of telling 28 different stories there was a tremendous amount of contextual information. Structured more like a typical non-fict..more

Oct 14, 2007Sarah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I loved this book--Nolen has gathered the stories of 28 different people touched by AIDS in Africa. Most are HIV positive themselves, and others are community activists and vaccine researchers. There is also an excellent profile on Nelson Mandela. Nolen's main mission here is to show that although thousands of people die of AIDS in Africa ever day (5500/day is the stat that she uses), it is completely and totally devastating in the same way it would be if you were to start losing your family her..more

This book is astounding, so I am reading it again. Hards words to absorb in 2018. Has progress been made? Started with a later chapter about Nelson Mandela. Yes he missed his first opportunity to address the aids crisis directly but in shepherding in a change in government and reconciliation, he helped improve the lives of all South Africans. So now they can have lives that are valued and can push forward to better address the aids crisis together. Sadly, Mandela is still one of few world leader..more

May 01, 2015Beatrice rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Simply presented, but utterly compelling. '28' is the story of 28 people living with AIDS in Africa. Why 28? Because at the time the book was written, there were 28 million people around the world living with HIV. At first, you think that this is just a collection of human interest stories. But in fact, these 28 stories of how HIV and AIDS have impacted these people's lives only serve as the velvet-covered handrail you hold on to as you follow the staircase down, down, down into the real issues..more

When I was assigned this to read for my Literature and Medicine class, I thought 'Oh, not another AIDS story in Africa.' I instantly guessed that Stephanie Nolen, the author, was white, and I had NO desire to read a book on AIDS in Africa by a white person. NONE AT ALL.
But I need to pass my class.
So I read it; it kind of surprised me. I liked that Nolen explored personal stories of HIV/AIDS experiences exclusively, dedicating a chapter to each story. Also, she named each chapter after the full n..more

Jul 25, 2011Vicki rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Stephanie Nolen has crafted a series of haunting, absorbing and deeply moving profiles of people from many walks of life and circumstances (from a truck driver to a doctor to a beleagured grandmother to Nelson Mandela), all dealing with the scourge of HIV/AIDS in their lives and communities. I anticipated that this book might be a depressing read, but the individuals profiled are engaging and inspiring, even as their stories wrench at your heart.
Still, the societal forces that continue to allow..more

This was a fantastic book. I was really moved, inspired, and saddened by the Africans in this book living with AIDS. Each story, very well-written, represents one million Africans who have died of AIDS--needlessly. The tragedy and aftermath of AIDS ripples far beyond the immediate families leaving an entire generation of children to care for one another and fend for themselves and entire villages of grandparents caring for the children of their children who have died of AIDS. Each story is diffe..more

Oct 13, 2007Emily rated it it was amazing

Shelves: booksofthepast

As a former Peace Corps Volunteer who worked with HIV and AIDS in Africa, this book both echoed my own experiences and provided me with even more information about the pandemic than I had already gathered. Well written with a journalistic but still personal focus, this book takes readers into intimate and painful situations with people from all over the continent. It provides both a technical and emotional picture of AIDS in Africa, from the causes to the attempts being made the stop the spread..more

Having sat in on the author's review of this book, I couldn't help but purchase it. She was so dynamic and had so many interesting stories. The author of this book is the only western journalist with a regular column on AIDS in Africa. Having studied journalism in school, this idea was particularly striking to me. There are so many stories behind the cut and dry story, and those are what I wanted to hear.
Not only that, but being a journalist, she put the disease and its causes, in ways that mad..more

Apr 05, 2008Julie Gentino rated it it was amazing

This book, along with There Is No Me Without You, is one I think everyone ought to read. It was born out of Nolen's six years of traveling across Africa researching the AIDS crisis. She shares with us the stories of just 28 of the people she encountered, representing the 28 million living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. It is impossible not to be moved by this book. I loved it because it puts faces on the often-heard phrase 'African AIDS crisis', but it is so much more than that. It shows how in many o..more

Jul 24, 2009Faiza Venzant rated it it was amazing

Shelves: tear-jerker, from-bookclub, non-fiction, book-club-worthy, must-reads

How many times have we heard about the African AIDS epidemic? (Yes it is most definitely an epidemic.)
From Bono to Matt Damon to the marketing success for the RED campaigns at The Gap and Motorola etc. What do we really understand about the people of Africa and the role AIDS plays in their lives?
Nolen's book is a great place to start for anyone wanting to know more about AIDS in Africa. Told through 28 voices it helps the reader to understand the cultural realities of Africa, the perceptions th..more

At the time this book was written 28 million people were directly impacted by AIDS in Africa, so the author has written one case study for each of these million people.
There is a wide range of case studies; the author (who is a journalist based in Africa) speaks to long-range truck drivers, educated professionals, family members left to look after orpahaned relatives, etc. Each offers a different insight into the epidemic, and also details the help offered by various local and international org..more

Jun 13, 2008Katherine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: international-development-reads, wow-book-club-reads, africa-book-reads

This book shared 28 real stories of people experiencing AIDS in different countries across Africa. Every story is unique, insightful, and layered with different contextual analysis of why AIDS has been spreading at an alarming rate on the African continent. Nolan's writing is very easy to read and has the right balance of scientific facts combined with political influences surrounding AIDS in Africa. Some stories will frustrate you, others will make you cry. But overall, you are left inspired by..more

Mar 12, 2019Christina rated it it was amazing

'28: stories of Aids in Africa' stays with you for a long time afterward. 100% recommend.
These haunting individual stories let you see the humanist catastrophe that is Aids, especially in Africa, as what it really is: an issue that is affecting the whole continent, its citizen, infrastructure, work life, and political situation. Which basically makes it the root to many problems.
Stephanie Nolan is very respectful in her retelling and reconstructing of people's lives. I could definitely feel tha..more

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