Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is culture risky? Media representations and local interpretations of risk in western Kenya / Crystal Biruk -- The politics of HIV education for adolescents in South Africa / Zolani Ngwane -- Navigating the AIDS epidemic in rural Malawi / Susan Cotts Watkins -- HIV/AIDS in Africa : no more slogans / Evelyne Shuster -- Stigma and the political economy of disease : the neglected dimension of interventions to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma / Laura McGough -- Comments on stigma and behavior change : implications for HIV prevention / Judith Porter -- Malaria and the peopling of early tropical Africa / James L.A. Webb Jr. -- Drug resistant bacteria and childhood diarrhea in Africa / Faith Wallace-Gadsden and Iruka Okeke -- Classify and sequestrate : the regulation of madness in Saint-Louis du Sénégal, 1890-1914 / Kalala Ngalamulume -- Commodity fetichismo, the holy spirit, and the turn to pentecostal and African Independent Churches in central Mozambique / James Pfeiffer -- The long shadow of colonialism : why we study medicine in Africa / Jonathan Sadowsky.