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Project outputs:AIDS+STATE BOOK

This is the working title of a project to record African perspectives on global, regional and national responses to the pandemic. Africa is the focus of intensive interventions by a vast array of different agencies, amidst which there are numerous agendas on how best to overcome the challenges of HIV/AIDS.


Increasingly, critical voices are to be heard at conferences and amongst African scientists, governments and NGOs, but rarely in the foreground of debates of policymaking and development strategies. Following up on an idea by Dr. Segun Ige, HEARD organised a small symposium with senior African scientists from across the continent, to explore the possibility of producing a book that would "read between the lines" of debates and concerns about HIV/AIDS in Africa.


The outcome was a plan and structure for the book. The expectation is that chapters will be written in 2008 for publication in 2009. One theme of the book, and the reason for reference to "the State", is a critical assessment of the apparent ambiguity of African governments around protecting "the right to life".