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Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV / AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Book by Philip W. Setel, Milton Lewis, Maryinez Lyons; Greenwood Press, 1999

Subjects:

Aids (Disease)--Africa-Sub-Saharan--History, Sexually Transmitted Diseases--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History

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...AIDS in Africa: An Introduction...syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the non- Western world. The...before the AIDS era, however...inquiry to African perceptions...according to Western clinical categories...in the pre-AIDS era, it was...concocted by Western medical...peculiarity of African bodies and...
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AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean

Book by George C. Bond, John Kreniske, Ida Susser, Joan Vincent; Westview Press, 1997

Subjects:

Aids (Disease)--Africa, Aids (Disease)--Caribbean Area, Medical Anthropology--Africa, Medical Anthropology--Caribbean Area

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This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa & the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global & comparative third-world context. The essays move beyond medical or epidemiological models, explaining the epidemic in its economic, social, political, & historic contexts.
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AIDS and STDs in Africa: Bridging the Gap between Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine

Book by Edward C. Green; Westview Press, 1994

Subjects:

Aids (Disease)--Africa, Sexually Transmitted Diseases--Africa, Traditional Medicine--Africa

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...infection. Unlike AIDS, most standard...cases in Africa appear not...of denoting Western-style, scientifically...most of the AIDS-related arguments...Traditional African Medicine...efficacy of Western-style biomedical...distribution of Western-trained medical...sub-Saharan African populations...scourge of AIDS promises to...
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AIDS, Sexuality and Gender in Africa: Collective Strategies and Struggles in Tanzania and Zambia

Book by Carolyn Baylies, Janet Bujra; Routledge, 2000

Subjects:

Aids (Disease)--Tanzania, Aids (Disease)--Zambia

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Focusing on the gendered aspect of the struggle against AIDS, this text studies the severity of the epidemic and the threat it poses to the population in Tanzania and Zambia. It considers the success of strategies against AIDS.
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King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa

Book by William Minter; Basic Books, 1986

Subjects:

Africa, Southern--Economic Conditions, Africa, Southern--History, Africa, Southern--Relations--Great Britain, Africa, Southern--Relations--United States, Great Britain--Relations--Africa, Southern, United States--Relations--Africa, Southern

Collections: History, Entire Library

...interests in southern Africa of Western ruling circles, their...societies and to shape Western interests there. Today, as South Africas rulers argue the strategic...the distinction between Western and South African interests, but rather...

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Re-evaluating Socioeconomic Conditions and the Continuing Spread of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal article by Ben Wodi; The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 29, 2005

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--Development and progression, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, HIV (Viruses)--Development and progression, HIV (Viruses)--Social aspects, HIV--Development and progression, HIV--Social aspects, Social economics--Evaluation, Socioeconomics--Evaluation, Sub-Saharan Africa--Health aspects, Sub-Saharan Africa--Social aspects

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...dates back in Western thought...researchers towards AIDS in Africa not based...disease like HIV/AIDS follows a...pattern in Africa compared to western countries...continuing HIV/AIDS control and...sub-Saharan Africa. The Western Journal of...
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Health-Information Sources for Kenyan Adolescents: Implications for Continuing HIV/AIDS Control and Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal article by Cornelius B. Pratt, Isaac Obeng-Quaidoo, Charles Okigbo, E. Lincoln James; The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 24, 2000

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--Africa, HIV infection--Africa, Health promotion--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc., Kenya--Health aspects, Sexually transmitted diseases--Kenya, Teenagers--Health aspects

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...cultural factors in the spread of HIV/AIDS are wife-sharing, polygamy, and widow...exposure to international media and to Western education threaten the primacy of some...attitudes toward teenage pregnancy in Africa. Among West Africans, for example, changes...
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The Ethical Design of and AIDS Vaccine Trial in Africa

Journal article by Nicholas A. Christakis; The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 18, 1988

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--Drug therapy, AIDS vaccines--Testing, Africa--Health aspects, Bioethics--Analysis, HIV (Viruses)--Demographic aspects, HIV--Demographic aspects, Medical ethics--Analysis

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...at odds with Western scientific notions...context of an AIDS vaccine trial in Africa, the foregoing...photographs of African AIDS patients in the Western press. 26 A...any trial of an AIDS vaccine in Africa by Western scientists should...
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A Global Disease and Its Governance: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Agency of NGOs

Journal article by Hakan Seckinelgin; Global Governance, Vol. 11, 2005

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--Prevention, Africa--Health policy, Non-governmental organizations--Services, Nongovernmental organizations--Services

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...billion pledge to twelve African and two Caribbean countries for HIV/AIDS interventions over the...Society as a Metaphor for Western Liberalism," Global...15 billion to twelve African and two Caribbean countries for HIV/AIDS interventions over the...
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AIDS Care and Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implementation Ethics

Journal article by Stuart Rennie, Frieda Behets; The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 36, 2006

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--Analysis, AIDS (Disease)--Care and treatment, Bioethics--Analysis, Hospitals, Voluntary--Management, Hospitals, Voluntary--Regional alliances, Regional medical programs--Management

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...anecdotes of HIV-positive women in Western Africa becoming pregnant in order to...Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV/AIDS in Africa: Efficiency, Equity, and Reality...Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV/AIDS in Africa," Lancet 365 (2005): 354-56...

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New African Stirs the World's Conscience into Doing What Is Right: The 2000 International Aids Conference Held in Durban, South Africa, Was a Great Eye Opener. I Saw at First Hand the Extreme Extent to Which Western Business, Media and Law Collude and Coordinate for Profit

Magazine article by Pusch Commey; New African, December 2006

Subjects:

Africa--Health aspects, Africa--Social aspects, International Conference on AIDS--Analysis, New African (Periodical)--Services, Periodical editors--Personal narratives, Periodical publishing--Services

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...International Aids Conference...Durban, South Africa, Was a Great...Extent to Which Western Business...extent to which Western business...to bring an African perspective on Aids, he was shouted...poverty causes Aids", portraying...lunatic. Yet, Western pharmaceutical...toilets, to feed Africans on antiretrovirals...
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R.W. Johnson Mark II: Unable to Find Anything Really Shocking to Say about the First Decade of the ANC Government, Including Corruption on a Scale Comparable to That of Even Other Western Democracies, R.W. Johnson Turns to Aids. Africa Will Overcome. Happy New Year and Happy New Century

Magazine article by Antonio De Figueiredo; New African, January 2005

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--Prevention, Democracy--Analysis, Democracy--South Africa, Johnson, R.W.--Works, South Africa--Economic aspects

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...That of Even Other Western Democracies, R.W. Johnson Turns to Aids. Africa Will Overcome. Happy...his comments on South Africa, I should as well keep...that of even other Western democracies, R.W. Johnson turns to Aids, the humanitarian issue...
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So, Only Africans Have Sex?: The Former Science Correspondent of the Sunday Times (London) on How Western Illusions over Africa Underpin Aids Science

Magazine article by Neville Hodgkinson; New African, September 2001

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--International aspects, HIV infection--Causes of, HIV infections--Causes of, Racism--Social aspects, Scapegoat--Social aspects

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...London) on How Western Illusions over Africa Underpin Aids Science...the South African government...investigation into Aids, Western scientists...assumptions made by Western scientists about African sexuality...explain why Aids deaths have...
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'Not Enough Flies to Create the Right Effect': Rotimi Sankore on Aids, Africa, the Western Media and "Development Pornography". for Decades, Development and Aid Charities in the West Have Believed the Best Way to Raise Funds for Their Work Is to Shock People with Astonishing Pictures of Poverty and Disease from the "Developing" World. but What Are the Unintended Consequences?

Magazine article by Rotimi Sankore; New African, July 2006

Subjects:

Africa--Economic aspects, Africa--Social aspects, Charities--Forecasts and trends, Pornography--Media coverage, Poverty--Africa, Poverty--Media coverage

Collections: Entire Library

...Sankore on Aids, Africa, the Western Media and...of mostly African (but sometimes...transformation of Aids into a "definitely...respected Western journalists...against HIV-Aids. It is unlikely...saviour of Africa. As always...But the Western media is...
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Africa and AIDS: Dependent Development, Sexism, and Racism

Magazine article by Charles W. Hunt; Monthly Review, Vol. 39, February 1988

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease), AIDS virus carriers--Research, Africa--Diseases, Disease transmission, HIV carriers--Research, Immunologic research--Political aspects, Immunological research--Political aspects, Public health administration--Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...therefore, that AIDS strikes a...In the African health care...adoption of Western technology...infected with the AIDS virus. A...diseases in Africa is the particular...clinic in Western Africa...generally Western model of health...underreporting of the AIDS problem on the African continent...

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The Tragedy of Aids

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), December 1, 2007

Subjects:

HIV, HIV (Viruses)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...The impact of HIV/Aids on African economies is already...key industries for African states - including...badly affected. HIV/Aids also has wider social...about the magnitude of Aids epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Two-thirds of all...
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Reporting under Poverty, Censorship . . . and Aids

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 15, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Poverty, Censorship . . . and Aids. In the first of a series...columns, Gwyneth Rees writes from Africa about her experiences after...the illness nobody dies of. Aids is in the public eye this week...it took a trip to sub-Saharan Africa for the enormity of the situation...
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AIDS in South Africa

Newspaper article by Helle Bering; The Washington Times, May 31, 2000

Subjects:

Africa

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...for the AIDS community here, insofar as the epidemic that threatened to engulf the Western world simply did not happen. This is true even though AIDS in Africa often has very different characteristics and transmission patterns than AIDS in the...
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THE GREAT AIDS MYTH? the Doom-Mongers Say It Is a Global Plague That Will Annihilate Whole Nations. but a Growing Number of Influential Voices Claim the Scale of the Aids Epidemic Has Been Vastly Exaggerated. the Mail Went to the Heart of Africa to Try to Discover the Whole Truth

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 12, 2004

Subjects:

United Nations

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Africa, for example, this feeds into the western imagination of the bizarre amount of sex and unrestrained promiscuity of the black African, he says. The latest figures seem to show that the Aids heretics may be winning the argument. Until...
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Studies Say Sex Not Main AIDS Cause in Africa; Tainted Needles, Blood Blamed

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 4, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...studies throughout Africa, the authors question...sex" premise behind Western-funded AIDS prevention programs...risky sex than their Western counterparts, the...sexual activity in Africa is not much different...ignored as effective AIDS prevention measures...

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Aids , in Medicine

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...from AIDS. The disease in sub-Saharan Africa, which has been especially hard hit, in...in many countries, the prevalence of AIDS has lowered the life expectancy. The epidemic...blood is more definitively tested with the Western blot method. A test that measures directly...
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Africa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Somalia and Mozambique. The scourge of AIDS has continued to pose a major health threat to many African nations, as a lack of economic resources...was estimated that some 21 million Africans were infected with the AIDS virus; in Botswana and Zimbabwe...
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South Africa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the Alliance agreed to form a coalition with Inkatha against the ANC in the 2004 elections. AIDS has become a significant health problem in South Africa, and in late 2003 the government finally agreed to provide a comprehension anti-AIDS prevention...
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Zimbabwe , Country, Africa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...credibility as he sought aid from South Africa. Self-Rule in Zimbabwe Later in 1979...Zimbabwe had been infected by HIV, the AIDS virus. The governments dispatch of troops...beginning in 1999. In 1998, Britain and other Western nations had agreed to help finance further...
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Hiv

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. HIV-2, seen more often in western Africa, has a slower course than...the well-known signs of AIDS to develop. HIV is especially...animal population, probably African monkeys or chimpanzees...

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