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I've been reading Peter Gill's new book, : How they turned AIDS into a catastrophe. Gill sets out to fix responsibility for the world's most devastating health crisis -- and the result is a compelling moral anaysis.

There has been a lot of coverage in recent days of the apparently impending change in the Vatican's policy over condoms. That policy is clearly part of the problem, in Gill's analysis, alongside right-wing evangelical attitudes in the United States, and breathtakingly irresponsible decisions by political leaders in both the rich and poor worlds.

Perhaps even more frightening than the historical account of the mismanagement and over-moralising of this crisis is the account of the contemporary misjudgments by religious and political leaders and Gill's description of those whose commercial interests have cost countless lives. Peter Gill is one of my guests next Sunday morning.