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AIDUCATION 20-10 TAKING CONTROL OF AIDS

Taking Control of AIDS

By: Dr. Edwin Mavunika Mapara

• ISBN: 1-4500-3892-1 (Trade Paperback 6x9)
• ISBN13: 978-1-4500-3892-8 (Trade Paperback 6x9)

• Pages : 289
• Book Format : Trade Book 6x9
• Subject : MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV
   

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BOOK DESCRIPTION: AIDUCATION 20-10 Taking Control of AIDS. This book is about a unique HIV/AIDS education (AIDucation) teaching strategy. The strategy was pioneered by a district medical officer who worked in Zambia (1987-1990) and Botswana (1990-2002), looking after African patients admitted to the wards with various tropical conditions including HIV infections, TB and AIDS. This is a true life story of an African medical doctor who wanted to prevent new HIV infections and to give better care and support to people living with HIV infections, TB and AIDS. It is a story of an African teaching intervention strategy that was not taken seriously and called “…controversial…radical…shock tactics…alarmist…” and other names by foreign consultants coming to Africa to assess Africa’s AIDS Control programmes. The unique teaching strategy was born in 1989 at Livingstone General Hospital in Zambia with very little support from the leadership. Sheer determination, belief and vision with action has made AIDUCATION 20-10 part of the university modules on Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (DTM&H) and Diploma in Tropical Nursing (DTN)courses for medical doctors and nurses respectively in Europe. The AIDucation initiative is 20 years old with 10 very successful years in Botswana (AIDUCATION 20-10). Is AIDUCATION 20-10 part of university courses in Africa? Not yet, as Africa waits for the consultants to give a go ahead...hopefully in the near future as AIDUCATION goes into its 21 years as a workable community teaching and sensitisation African initiative.