Power, politics and HIV/AIDS in the African blogosphere

Submitted by Dipesh Pabari on 4 December, 2008 - 22:33

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“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse”

About a year ago, CNN and Time declared the identification of male circumcision as a preventive measure against HIV infection as the biggest medical breakthrough of 2007. Having worked on one of the studies that led to this “discovery” several years before, I quickly penned something which was published on Africa News on the 20th December 2007.

Click HERE to read the rest of this article published in Pambazuka

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