Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

PHILIP W. SETEL is the Director of the Adult Morbidity and Mortality Project in Tanzania, and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School. He is a medical and demographic anthropologist who has done research in Africa and Papua New Guinea. He has conducted several studies of AIDS, sexuality, fertility, and gender.MILTON LEWIS is currently a Senior Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia./e He is a medical historian who has published extensively on the history of sexually transmitted diseases and colonial medical history. He is editor of Sex, Disease, and Society: A Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (Greenwood, 1997).MARYINEZ LYONS is an independent consultant and medical historian engaged in studying the social history of AIDS in Uganda. She is conducting research in affiliation with the Chicago Humanities Institute, University of Chicago, and the University of Cologne. Her previous work includes a monograph on the history of sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Introduction: Comparative Histories of STDs and HIV/AIDS in Africa by Philip SetelSex, Disease, and Culture Change in Ghana by Deborah PellowSexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Côte d'Ivoire by Jeanne-Marie Amat-RozeA History of STDs and AIDS in Senegal--Difficulties in Accounting for 'Social Logics' in Health Policy by Charles Becker and Rene CollignonMedicine and Morality: A Review of Responses to Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Uganda Over the 20th Century by Maryinez LyonsLocal Histories of STDs and AIDS in Western and Northern Tanzania by Philip SetelSexually Transmitted Diseases in Colonial Malawi by Wiseman Chijere ChirwaThe Social, Cultural, and Epidemiological History of STDs in Zambia by Bryan T. Callahan and Virginia BondThe Management of Venereal Disease in a Settler Society: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900 to 1930 by Jock McCullochThe Origins of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century South Africa and the Development of Racially Segregated Approaches to Treatment by Karen JochelsonBibliographiesIllustrations