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The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa in a Historical Perspective: A reader

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This book , published by Academia-Bruylant (Louvain-la-Neuve) and Karthala (Paris) in September 2006, aims to initiate a dialogue between historians and experts in other disciplines such as economics, sociology, epidemiology and the science of development on the history of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The articles published aim to retrace the spacio-temporal origin of the epidemic, many of them making use of oral history techniques.

 

 This volume contains fifteen contributions from sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and North America. Half of the contributors wrote in French, the other half in English.  A third of the contributors are professional historians while other contributors come from disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, economics, epidemiology, medicine or development

sciences. They are not historians but have agreed to review their specific subjects of study from an historical point of view.

 

This book covers the four large regions of sub-Saharan Africa: West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa.  It does not include Portuguese speaking Africa or the Horn of Africa.  A greater proportional weighting is given to South Africa due to the high rate of HIV infection in the country. According to the publishers- due to its universities, centers of research and medical infrastructures, South Africa has also, over the past ten years, generated a great amount of  work on AIDS, often in collaboration with European or North American partners.

 

The document is available online in English and the French version is available in hardcopy. 

 

 

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Languages
English and French
Number of Pages
270
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E-mail received from  AF-AIDS and Le Réseau sénégalais “Droit, Santé, éthique” website on October 09 2007.

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both to my work as well as personnaly. It has assisted me in preparing lectures
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