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Open Access 01-12-2006 | Book review

Niekerk Anton A, Kopelman Loretta M: Ethics and AIDS in Africa: The Challenge to our Thinking Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press; 2005. 222 pages, ISBN 1-59874-070-9

Author: Stuart Rennie

Published in: AIDS Research and Therapy | Issue 1/2006

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Ethics, AIDS, and Africa – three concepts that conjure up a host of powerful associations. Ethics: our fragile human attempts to negotiate acceptable paths through conflicts of value. AIDS: the world's deadliest epidemic since the Black Plague of the 14th century. And Africa: cradle of humankind, burdened by colonization, famine, poverty and civil war. In what ways do ethics, AIDS and Africa go together, and how is our thinking challenged by their relationship? …
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Title
Niekerk Anton A, Kopelman Loretta M: Ethics and AIDS in Africa: The Challenge to our Thinking Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press; 2005. 222 pages, ISBN 1-59874-070-9
Author
Stuart Rennie
Publication date
01-12-2006
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
AIDS Research and Therapy / Issue 1/2006
Electronic ISSN: 1742-6405
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-6405-3-24

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