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Sampa and Promise, Paul and Kangwa, Darius, Henry, and their classmates were students together at a Zambian boys’ Catholic mission boarding school in the early 1980s. These are not their real names. I have used pseudonyms and at times altered superficial details about them to protect their anonymity in this account of their lives, lived in the shadow of HIV/AIDS. My research focuses on a number of questions; among them: How did they learn to be men? How did they come to know themselves as engendered sexual beings? How have they conducted their sexual lives in the face of the pandemic?
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© 2009 Anthony Simpson
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Simpson, A. (2009). Introduction. In: Boys to Men in the Shadow of AIDS. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230620711_1
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