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Politics of AIDS control in Uganda examined

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 13th, 2004

The politics of AIDS control in Uganda have been characterized.

In a recent study, researchers in England evaluated "the political dimensions of Uganda's progress in bringing a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic under control."

J. Putzel and coauthors at the University of London examined "the history of the political processes involved in Uganda's battle against HIV/AIDS," and analyzed the "complexities of presidential action and the relation between action at the level of the state and that taken within societal organizations."

"By the mid-1980s, Uganda was experiencing a full-blown epidemic, the virulence of which was connected with...

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