1. The shadow of an epidemic : an introduction -- 2. Learning to live with HIV : the background to an epidemic -- 3. Loss and grief -- 4. Progress and growth -- 5. Crises and change -- 6. The changing epidemic : treatment and care -- 7. Managing loss and forgetting pain?

Co-management – a partnership between government, community organisations and other stakeholders – is now a commonly used approach in fisheries management. However, the effectiveness of fisheries co-management has varied considerably, especially in low-income settings. Although research into...

<title>A<sc>bstract</sc> </title> Co-wives are often portrayed both as being rivals for their husband's affections and resources as well as collaborators in managing the family. I explore a further dimension: historical time. The life trajectories of individual women in rural Uganda show how co-wife relationships are...

Some types of intravaginal practices (IVP) may increase the risk for HIV acquisition. This is particularly worrisome for populations with dual high prevalence of HIV and IVP. Women involved in transactional sex are at increased risk for HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa. Social, cultural and...

Two significant challenges face researchers tracking HIV-related socio-economic and demographic change over time in large cohort studies. Firstly, data collected in cohort studies established to describe the dynamics of HIV infection may contain no systematic data on household consumption...

During the past five years, researchers from the Medical Research Council and Uganda Virus Research Institute (MRC/UVRI) Programme on AIDS have studied sexual behaviour to better understand the risk and the spread of HIV infection in a rural Ugandan community. This paper aims at a reflective...

There is increasing evidence in SSA that once infected with HIV men are disadvantaged compared to women in terms of uptake of treatment. In Uganda fewer men are on treatment, they tend to initiate treatment later, are difficult to retain on treatment and have a higher mortality while on...