Craig Timberg

Craig Timberg is currently The Washington Post's deputy national security editor. Timberg was the Post's Johannesburg Bureau Chief from 2004 to 2008, covering political crises in Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast and Nigeria, as well as the continuing emergence of a new South Africa. His outstanding work on AIDS in Africa provided the foundation of his book, Tinderbox, that will be published by Penguin Press this winter.

 

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Published work

Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It (March 2012, Penguin Press)

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Craig Timberg and pioneering AIDS researcher Dr. Daniel Halprin team up to trace the spread of the HIV virus in Africa. Following both biological and cultural threads, their work shows why the billions of dollars spent on battling AIDS in Africa have failed and explores how we might redirect our efforts to a more successful end.