HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being /

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HIV/AIDS, Illness and African Well-Being' highlights the specific health problems facing Africa today, most particularly the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the book presents not only various health crises, but also the larger historical and contemporary contexts within...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Heaton, Matthew M. (Editor ), Falola, Toyin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The infectious continent : Africa, disease, and the western imagination / Sophie Wertheimer
  • Waterborne diseases and urban water supply in Makurdi, Nigeria, 1927-60 / Akpen Philip
  • Smallpox and social control in colonial Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1850-1916 / Kalala Ngalamulume
  • Poor man's trouble, rich man's graveyard : a study of malaria and epidemiological sciences since the nineteenth century / Raphael Chijioke Njoku
  • Perceptions of epilepsy in a traditional society : an Akan (Ghana) family's experience / Cecilia S. Obeng
  • Disability in Nigeria / Gabriel B. Fosu [and others]
  • The microbial rebellion : trends and containment of antimicrobial resistance in Africa / Iruka N. Okeke.
  • Development and the epidemiologic transition in Sub-Saharan Africa / Kathryn H. Jacobsen and Melissa K. Van Dyke
  • The economic burden of Buruli ulcer disease on households in rural Ghana / Frank N.F. Dadzie, Ellen A.S. Whitney, and Gerald M. Mumma
  • Health issues in a mining community in South Africa / Freek Cronje and Charity Chenga
  • Globalization, health, and the hajj : the West African pilgrimage scheme, 1919-38 / Matthew M. Heaton
  • Of savages and mass killing : HIV/AIDS, Africa, and the crisis of global health governance / Obijiofor Aginam
  • Vicissitudes of AIDS policies in Burkina Faso from 1985 to 2001: a historical perspective / Yacouba Banhoro.
  • Factors associated with deliberate attempts to transmit HIV infection among persons living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania / William N. Mkanta
  • Development and alternative mitigation treatment opportunities of the HIV/AIDS epidemic / Richard Beilock and Kaley Creswell
  • Confusion, anger, and denial : results of HIV/AIDS focus group discussions with urban adult Zimbabweans / Mandi Chikombero
  • Three proposals for analyzing the economic growth effects of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa / Richard Beilock.

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