Ethics and AIDS in Africa: The challenge to our thinking (book review)

Abstract

AIDS is more than a medical phenomenon. The devastation wreaked by the pandemic potentially threatens economic development, social stability, and democratic governance. In their edited volume, Anton Van Niekerk and Loretta Kopelman bring together thirteen chapters, many of which were previously published in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy or other sources, to add another dimension to Africa's unfolding AIDS pandemic--the ethical dimension. In light of the numerous challenges that AIDS poses to sub-Saharan Africa, the contributors to this volume attempt to describe the nature of the international community's obligations to HIV-positive persons and to the continent in general.