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The African AIDS epidemic : a history / John Iliffe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Iliffe, John, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Africa--History.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio ; Oxford, [England] ; Cape Town, [South Africa] : Ohio University Press : James Currey : Double Storey, 2016.
- Summary:
- This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History answers President Thabo Mbeki's provocative question as to why Africa has suffered this terrible epidemic.
- Contents:
- Intentions
- Origins
- Epidemic in Western Equatorial Africa
- The drive to the East
- The conquest of the South
- The penetration of the West
- Causation: a synthesis
- Responses from above
- Views from below
- NGOs & the evolution of care
- Death & the household
- The epidemic matures
- Containment
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780821442739
- 0821442732
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