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detailed Search||Add a new Entry| HIV and AIDS in Africa Author:
Jayati Ghosh Date of Publication: 2003-10-09 Summary: AIDS is
devastating many areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Over twelve
million people in the region have died of AIDS in the past
decade. Over 29.4 million people in the region are infected with
HIV. Of the eleven people who contract HIV each minute in the
world, ten live in sub-Saharan Africa. With no known cure and no
vaccine as yet available, an estimated 60% of Africans under the
age of eighteen today will be dead of AIDS before they reach 45
years of age. Most prevention programs have largely failed
because the research behind them has focused primarily on 'risk
groups', behavioral change models, and flawed understandings of
cultural practices."HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology"
seeks to shift the predominant understandings generated by
biomedical and epidemiological research, recognizing that HIV
transmission in sub-Saha