TY  - BOOK
AU  - Falola,Toyin
AU  - Heaton,Matthew M.
TI  - HIV/AIDS, illness, and African well-being
SN  - 9781580462402 (hardcover : alk. paper)
SN  - 1092-5228
AV  - RA643.86.A35 H5512 2007
U1  - 362.196/979200966 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Rochester, NY
PB  - University of Rochester Press
KW  - AIDS (Disease)
KW  - Africa
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Public health
KW  - HIV Infections
KW  - Africa South of the Sahara
KW  - Attitude to Health
KW  - Communicable Disease Control
KW  - Health Care Costs
KW  - Health Promotion
N1  - "The chapters presented here were originally presented at a conference on African health and illness held at the University of Texas at Austin from March 25-27, 2005."--Acknowledgments; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 Cronjé 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006103313.html
ER  -