The HIV epidemic: squeezing out the African voice

Simms, C.

Journal of Internal Medicine 264(5): 504-508

2008


ISSN/ISBN: 0954-6820
PMID: 18764884
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2008.02002.x
Document Number: 203355
This article focuses on one of the two factors that help explain why Africa's human immunodeficiency virus epidemic is not under control i.e. response to the epidemic. It presents evidence that Africa's health agenda, rather than being set by Africans, was largely determined by the World Bank-led International Donor Community (IDC) structure and processes which excluded African participation in decision- and policy-making.

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