The deafening silence of AIDS

Abstract

It is a greal honour to be asked to deliver the first Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture. lt is fitting that this remembrance should have been created to honour Mann's memory and legacy. He more than any other individual must be credited with first conceiving and construeting a global response to the AIDS epidemie. This he did not only as founding director of the World Heallh Organisacion's Global Programme on AIDS between 1986 and 1990, but also after he left the WHO, in his theoretical and advocacy work within the discipline ofpublic health. [...]