Emily Bass on America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Emily Bass, the author of "To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa", to tell the story of US engagement in HIV/AIDS control in sub-Saharan Africa.

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 publications, including The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Esquire, The Lancet, Ms., n+1, Out, POZ, Slice, and has received notable mention in Best American Essays. A lifelong social justice activist, Emily has served as an external expert for the World Health Organization and is a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do Collective. To End a Plague, her book on America's war on AIDS in Africa is forthcoming from PublicAffairs Press in July 2021. She has been a Fulbright journalism scholar in Uganda and received scholarships from the Norman Mailer Writer's Colony and the Vermont Studio Center. She was the 2018-2019 Martin Duberman Visiting Research Fellow at the New York Public Library. A Manhattan native, Emily lives in Brooklyn with her family.