Models for Life: Advancing antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa is based on two conferences that were held in Copenhagen and Uppsala, in September 2004. The events brought together more than 70 key actors from Denmark, Sweden, and Uganda in the field of HIV/AIDS and its treatment antiretroviral therapy. The conferences were unique in that each panel and the subsequent discussion brought together researchers, donors, and representatives from non-governmental organizations in order to link theory, operations research, and practice.The working paper covers a wide range of the issues that were brought up at the conferences, but focuses on the following three main topics: o access to antiretroviral therapy;o H\holistic approaches to providing antiretroviral therapy, prevention, and support; ando antiretroviral therapy and public health services.Each section begins by introducing the core issues to be addressed. The different presentations are then put into perspective by summarizing the main questions from the participants and the other panelists. In addition, the editors further developed some of the key points made by drawing on current literature in the field. The final section concludes with a list of take-home messages for non-governmental organizations.

This book focuses on the lives and experiences of young people in Africa. On agents who, willingly or unwillingly, see themselves as belonging to the socio-generational category of youth and the ways in which they seek to shape and unfold their lives in a positive manner. Rather than seeing youth as either a social or cultural entity in itself, or as a predefined life-stage, the book argues for an exploration of how youth position themselves and are positioned within generational categories. In studying young people, social scientists must conceptualise youth as both social being and social becoming; a position in movement. It is from the duality of being positioned and seeking one's own socio-generational position that this book engages in the debate on contemporary African youth.The chapters are based on ethnographic research across the African continent and provide in-depth analyses of the perceptions, positions, possibilities, and practices of diverse groups of young people. The book will be of value to scholars and students of African studies and social science interested in this major, yet marginalized, social category in contemporary Africa.