Early AIDS Research in Rakai: Ugandan Experiences and Expertise in the Creation of the African AIDS Paradigm.
This paper revisits criticisms by historians and anthropologists of early AIDS research and interventions in Africa. These critiques identified persistent colonial era-tropes in the narratives about AIDS in Africa, the early foreclosure of certain avenues of inquiry, and the dominant influence of re...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 1 - 27 |
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Trustees of Boston University, acting through its African Studies Center
2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=143180783&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 143180783 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03617882 IAF jtl: International Journal of African Historical Studies issn: 03617882 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2020 vid: 53 iid: 1 pid: 945 pub: Trustees of Boston University, acting through its African Studies Center artinfo: ui: 143180783 ppf: 1 ppct: 26 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 2.2MB tig: atl: Early AIDS Research in Rakai: Ugandan Experiences and Expertise in the Creation of the African AIDS Paradigm. aug: au: Cummiskey, Julia affil: University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. su: AIDS research Sexually transmitted diseases Epidemiology Medical research Rakaia (N.Z.) Uganda sug: subj: Rakaia (N.Z.) Uganda AIDS research Sexually transmitted diseases Epidemiology Medical research keyword: epidemiology HIV/AIDS medical research Rakai sexually transmitted infections ab: This paper revisits criticisms by historians and anthropologists of early AIDS research and interventions in Africa. These critiques identified persistent colonial era-tropes in the narratives about AIDS in Africa, the early foreclosure of certain avenues of inquiry, and the dominant influence of researchers and institutions from Europe and the United States. This paper reconsiders those critiques by introducing an important group of African AIDS researchers, whose contributions to the early research work have been largely overlooked in the historical literature. While these African researchers shared many of the views held by expatriate researchers, their accounts of the early AIDS investigations cast a new light on the choices made by AIDS research programs in the 1980s and early 1990s. These Ugandan physicians and scientists emphasized the coinciding political and epidemiological crises, which led them to take a highly pragmatic and results-oriented approach to AIDS research. While their agendas foreclosed some avenues of investigation, they also permitted researchers to allocate limited resources to a focused set of topics and interventions, generating powerful conclusions in relatively short periods of time. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of International Journal of African Historical Studies is the property of Trustees of Boston University, acting through its African Studies Center and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: International Journal of African Historical Studies holder: Trustees of Boston University, acting through its African Studies Center dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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