In a series of case studies of sexually transmitted disease and
HIV/AIDS from around Africa, contributors examine the social,
cultural, and political-economic bases of risk, transmission, and
response to epidemic disease. This book brings together major
contributions to the historical study of epidemic disease in
developing countries and considers how particular constellations of
cultural, social, political, and economic factors in different
countries have affected the historical patterns of disease and
collective (official and community) response to them. This book is
a companion volume to "Sex, Disease, and Society: A Comparative
History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and
the Pacific" (Greenwood, 1997).
From this endeavor to provide insight into the conjunctions and
disjunctions between the histories of STDs and the AIDS pandemic in
Sub-Saharan Africa certain common issues have emerged. These
include medical ambiguity and epidemiologic diversity; cultural
change; racism; gender, labor migration, and economic instability;
and the practice of biomedicine and epidemiology in African
contexts. All of these factors are embedded in the colonial legacy
and post-colonial political economic conditions across the
continent.
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