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(Speculatively, she credits this to colonial rule in Uganda having been less of a shattering experience.) Epstein describes the disappearance of these successful attitudes in the late 1990s, the country's previously pragmatic public health campaigns giving way to condomburning and the preaching of sexual abstinence. In the past decade, she notes, a third of all Ugandans have become born-again Christians, their conversion aided by American Aids money being directed towards using the disease as an opportunity to evangelise.
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A Cure for Everyone
A cure for everyone The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against Aids Helen Epstein Viking, 352pp. £16.99
Who do you blame for Africa's struggle with Aids? Helen Epstein doesn't blame the chimps o...See the full content of this document
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