TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giles-Vernick,Tamara
AU  - Webb,James L.A.
TI  - Global health in Africa: historical perspectives on disease control 
AV  - RA545 .G56 2013eb
U1  - 614.4096 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Athens, Ohio
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Public health
KW  - Africa
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; James L. A. Webb, Jr., and Tamara Giles-Vernick --; The long history of smallpox eradication : lessons for global health in Africa; William H. Schneider --; The first large-scale use of synthetic insecticide to control malaria in tropical Africa : lessons from Liberia, 1945-62; James L. A. Webb, Jr --; A genealogy of treatment as prevention (TasP) : prevention, therapy, and the tensions of public health in Africa; Guillaume Lachenal --; The true fiasco : the treatment and prevention of severe acute malnutrition in Uganda, 1950-74; Jennifer Tappan --; People, great apes, disease, and global health in the northern forests of equatorial Africa; Tamara Giles-Vernick and Stephanie Rupp --; Defenseless bodies and violent afflictions in a global world : blood, iatrogenesis, and hepatitis C transmission in Egypt; Anne Marie Moulin --; "Snake in the belly" : Africa's unhappy experience with cholera during the seventh pandemic, 1971 to the present; Myron Echenberg --; Male circumcision and HIV control in Africa : questioning scientific evidence and the decision-making process; Michel Garenne, Alain Giami, and Christophe Perrey --; Heroin use, trafficking, and intervention approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa : local and global contexts; Sheryl McCurdy and Haruka Maruyama
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