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From: "Alison Katz" <katzalison at hotmail.com>
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Herebelow an article  published as 'AIDS, individual behaviour and the
unexplained variation',
 African Journal of AIDS Research 2002, 1: 125-142
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> The abstract  is enclosed; the full version can be had directly from
Alison.

 The  paper  makse the point that individual sexual behaviour cannot
possibly explain the epidemics. It points to the possible role of
malnutrition and coinfection through  their devastating effect on immune
function as root causes of high  transmission rates in poor populations. I
have for long despaired over the neoliberal, individualistic  possibly
racist approach to AIDS which has had virtually no impact on the  epidemic.
The international health  community must acknowledge the failure of the
response so far and be prepared to look at alternative explanations and
approaches.

 Many thanks
 Alison


Abstract