Steady with custom: Mediating HIV prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea
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Biomedicine and epidemiology have made possible an understanding of HIV pathology and the way the virus damages the human immune system to the extent that infected bodies eventually die from the complications of AIDS. But these specialized fields of knowledge have been unable to prevent the persistent spread of HIV throughout the world. Three decades since the virus was first isolated and named, the magnitude of HIV represents the most serious public health issue confronting the world today. In...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2010 |
Type: | Book chapter |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/55873 |
Book Title: | Plagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present |
DOI: | /10.5040/9781474215343.ch-017 |
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