Critical Review “Wisdom of Whores” The control and eradication of HIV/AIDS should be of utmost importance to the entire global community. Although many modern countries have effectively treated and controlled the disease in recent decades in their own societies, it is vital that third world countries and poorer nations control the disease in order to advance as a population. Currently, existing methods to control HIV/AIDS do not work in poor countries due to the stigma associated with the disease and a general lack of understanding about it. In “The Wisdom of Whores,” Elizabeth Pasini presents a new method of studying disease from a scientific perspective that is both viable and promising as a solution to the AIDS/HIV problem. His proposal is very strong and well documented. He uses his own experience working at UNAIDS, the CDC, and the WHO to support his claims from a first-hand account and from much of his own scientific research, as well as other scientific research, to explain why attention should be focused on monitoring the patterns and spread of HIV/AIDS, rather than simply controlling it. His overall argument is very convincing and provides information from a point of view not normally evaluated. Supporters of NGOs and religious groups that help prevent the spread of the disease would be the only real dissent against his thesis. They would object to his claim that NGOs and religious groups have harmed HIV/AIDS prevention in the past or are currently influencing disease control in a negative way. According to the WHO in 2007, “more than 95% of HIV cases are in developing countries, of which two-thirds are in sub-Saharan Africa. “ Also, there were 2.1 million HIV-related deaths and 2.5 million… halfway through the document… they don't take much into account, they really fail to convince readers that NGOs can succeed if enough is enough Effort is put into collective action by the subsidized government and organizations as a whole Pasini's overall thesis is simply that the way HIV/AIDS should be addressed in sub-Saharan Africa should. be changed. Her background, based solely on science and not medicine, leads her to suggest that tracking the patterns and spread of HIV/AIDS rather than focusing on controlling and treating it will allow us to successfully stop it in the future. She is both compelling and persuasive in her arguments, making the reader actually believe what she says. Not only does she use the best possible evidence, first-hand experience, but she also explains what the major issues facing the HIV/AIDS community are. in terms of stigma, marginalization and organizational problems..