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AIDS IN AFRICA - MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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?????????????? MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Submitted by: DIEU HOANG, Quynh November 25, 2003 McGill University, Fall 2003 Before a dissertation on the impact of the pandemic AIDS on Africa can begin, one must first start with an overview of the continent's historical, socio-cultural and economic reality to fully understand why AIDS spread so quickly by bringing into clarity situational factors of poverty, patterns of sexual networking, cultural practices, the subordinate positions of women, wars and migrant labour that contributed to a conflagration of AIDS dispersion. It is my intention to shed light on these factors in the hopes of alleviating issues of liability and a 'blame the victim' attitude must be cast aside in order to formulate assistive economic help before health policy planning can be undertaken. ???????????? In the last century, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has probably become one of the most important communicable diseases due to its biological complexity, global impact, diverse modes of transmission, invariable...
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