HIV and AIDS in Africa: beyond epidemiology

Introduction: Beyond Epidemiology: Locating AIDS in Africa / Susan Craddock

1. AIDS, History, and Struggles over Meaning / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf

2. Politics, Culture, and Medicine: An Unholy Trinity? Historical Continuities and Ruptures in the HIV/AIDS Story in Malawi / John Lloyd Lwanda

3. Perceptions and Misperceptions of AIDS in Africa / Joseph R. Oppong and Ezekiel Kalipeni

4. Mapping the AIDS Pandemic in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Critical Overview / Ezekiel Kalipeni, Susan Craddock and Jayati Ghosh

5. HIV/AIDS In West Africa: The Case of Senegal, Ghana, and Nigeria / Joseph R. Oppong and Samuel Agyei-mensah

6. Coercion, Constraints and "Cultural Entrapments": A Further Look at Gendered and Occupational Factors Pertinent to the Transmission of HIV in Africa / Anne V. Akeroyd

7. Strategies for Prevention of Sexual Transmission of HIV/AIDS among Adolescents: The Case of High School Students in Kenya / Njeri Mbugua

8. AIDS in Africa: Structure, Agency, and Risk / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf

9. Culture, Sexuality, and Women's Agency in The Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa / Ida Susser and Zena Stein

10. Migrancy, Masculine Identities, and AIDS: The Psychosocial Context of HIV Transmission on the South African Gold Mines / Catherine Campbell

11. Invisible Presence of Homosexuality: Implications for HIV/AIDS and Rights in Southern Africa / Oliver Phillips

12. Urbanization, Poverty, and Sex: Roots of Risky Sexual Behaviors in Slum Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya / Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo and Alex Chika Ezeh

13. Mobile Populations and HIV/AIDS in East Africa / Maryinez Lyons

14. Understanding the African HIV Pandemic: An Appraisal of the Contexts and Lay Explanation of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic with Examples from Tanzania and Kenya / Gabriel Rugalema

15. Socioeconomic Obstacles to HIV Prevention and Treatment in Developing Countries: The Roles of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank / Peter Lurie, Percy C. Hintzen and Robert A. Lowe

16. Participatory Diagramming and the Ethical and Practical Challenges of Helping Africans Themselves to Move HIV Work "Beyond Epidemiology" / Mike Kesby

17. Community-Based Research on AIDS in the Context of Global Inequalities - Making a Virtue of Necessity? / Carolyn Baylies

18. AIDS and Ethics: Clinical Trials, Pharmaceuticals, and Global Scientific Practice / Susan Craddock

19. Excerpt from We Miss You All: AIDS in the Family / Noerine Kaleeba

20. Understanding AIDS in Public Lives / David Eaton

21. Economic Growth Rates in Africa: The Potential Impact of HIV/AIDS / Lynn R. Brown

22. Rising Tide of AIDS Orphans in Southern Africa / Jayati Ghosh and Ezekiel Kalipeni

23. Excerpt from Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis: A Mother to Her Brothers: A Child-Headed Household's Story, Johannesburg, South Africa / Emma Guest

24. Concluding Remarks: Beyond Epidemiology / Joseph R. Oppong and Jayati Ghosh.