LSEAIDS website
Led by Professor Tony Barnett, the LSEAIDS centre brings together leading social scientists at the LSE to confront the social and economic implications of HIV/ AIDS.

The November 2004 edition of the Journal of International Development includes a collection of work on HIV/AIDS arising from work for the Crisis States Research Centre and DESTIN.
 

HIV/AIDS Crisis

This page seeks to draw together work relating to the global HIV/AIDS crisis. Whilst some of the texts presented here have come from researchers associated with the Crisis States Research Centre, some have been sent to us for inclusion by other authors and have been added as an attempt to stimulate more public debate.

James Putzel, Director of the Crisis States Research Centre:
'Institutionalising an Emergency Response: HIV/AIDS and Governance in Uganda and Senegal'
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Tim Allen & Suzette Heald, 'HIV/AIDS policy in Africa: What has worked in Uganda and what has failed in Botswana?', Journal of International Development, 16 (2004), pp.1141-1154.
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Tim Allen: 'Aids and Evidence: interrogating some Ugandan myths', Journal of Biosocial Science, Vol.38:1, January 2006, pp. 7-2
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Tim Allen has also published a report on HIV/Aids in Sudan in conjunction with World Vision.
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In addition to her work with Tim Allen, Suzette Heald, Visiting Fellow with the Centre, has published the following :

Suzette Heald, Abstain or Die: the development of HIV/AIDS policy in Botswana. Journal of Biosocial Science, 2006, 38: 29-41.

S. Heald and A. Segobye, Cultural and Religious Values in Africa. AIDS in Africa: Scenarios for the future, 2004. UNAIDS online publication.

S. Heald, Ethnologie und Aids in Afrika, Peripherie: Zeitschrift fuer Politik und Oekonomie in der Dritten Welt. No 93/94: 113-138. 2004

S. Heald, 'An Absence of Anthropology: Critical Reflections on anthropology and AIDS policy and practice in Africa.' In G. Ellison, M. Parker and C. Campbell (eds.) Learning from HIV/AIDS: a Biosocial approach, pp.210-237. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003,

S. Heald, 'It's Never as Easy as ABC: Understandings of AIDS in Botswana' African Journal of AIDS Research 1(1): 1-11, 2002, 1608-5906


Jenny Kuper: Law and the Challenge of HIV/AIDS

Jenny Kuper, who was a Visiting Fellow with the Crisis States Research Centre during Phase One of the programme, examined the impact of international law on the HIV/AIDS crisis, looking in particular at how this impacted on Uganda. Project details.

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Working Paper 69 (Sept 2005)
'Law as a Tool: The Challenge of HIV/AIDS', Jenny Kuper

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A summary of Dr Kuper's work is available on the id21 website.
It also features on the GRC Exchange website, maintained by the UK Dept for International Development.


'Widows, Aids, Health and Human Rights in Africa', Vanessa von Struensee.
(This paper represents the views of the author alone and publication does not imply endorsement by the Centre.)
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Also by Vanessa von Struensee: The Domestic Relations Bill in Uganda: Potential for Addressing Polygamy, Bride Price, Cohabitation, Marital Rape, Widow Inheritance, and Female Genital Mutiliation, published by GBV Prevention Network