The Unwritten Sociology of HIV 
Alex de Waal
- Aids in the 21st Century: Disease and Globalisation by Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside
The first anecdotal evidence that Aids-related illness and death were contributing to a crisis in African farming came in the mid-1980s; the first consultants’ reports and academic studies were completed by about 1990. But even the international agencies that sponsored these studies, including the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Department for International Development, somehow ignored the findings when designing their assistance programmes. It is only now that rural development and food security programmes in Africa are beginning to take account of the implications of Aids.
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Alex de Waal is programme director at the Social Science Research Council and the author, with Julie Flint, of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War.
Other articles by this contributor:
‘I will not sign’ · Alex de Waal at the Darfur Peace Talks
Counter-Insurgency on the Cheap · The Road to Darfur
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