Many people do not know much about what is HIV and other disease that have been in the world for more than three decades. I am one of those people that does not research or give interest to topics that might not be necessary for me to study but Africa is an interesting topic that most people want to know about. In the book A story the African Aids Epidemic by Iliffe he talks about why the epidemic started and how long had the virus was before naming it. This books has a lot of information that was collected from multiple articles and books. The second book we have read in class Scrambling for America by Johanna Crane she talks about not only the resources that people were able to get but also how the development of the clinic from small to big.
In John Iliffe book A story the African Aids Epidemic his argument about why Africa has had the worst HIV/AIDS epidemic is because it was the first epidemic. The virus was in Africa for a long time before actually becoming and epidemic or even having a name. The biggest problem that lead to the epidemic was the silence of the people”Silence expansion” (John, 158). People had the symptoms but did not speak out. Fear and shame was their main reason but also because they did not know about the virus even if they had symptoms. Before the disease was named the local people from Uganda and Tanzania called it “slim” because of the first six months “The virus existed in the Kinshasa region by 1959 and began to take epidemic form there by the mid 1970s” ( John,158 ). The different regions of Africa had different approaches to the disease, the origin place was in western equatorial Africa. There are multiple reasons why the epidemic spread so quickly “global expansion, and the circumstances into which it spread, giving particular weight among those circumstances to gender inequalities, sexual behavior, and impoverishment ” ( John, 58 ). Migrant workers and sex workers were the main reason for the epidemic. Men would have sex with sex workers that were infected and then go to their wife's and infect them too. Commercial sex and sex in poverty are other factor that Iliffe mentions on his book in how the virus became an epidemic. Women been forced to have …show more content…
When Johanna went back to Uganda in 2009 the doctors feel “uncomfortable” (Crane, 125) she interviewing them without compensation. She also said on her book that if they paid too little the senior doctors might be offended because all their study to not be paid so people know their knowledge. I did think that it was wrong that the Doctors wanted money for their interviews because their interviews were going to help her and other people know what and how Uganda was developing not just with their studies but noticing the support from the United States but I also understand that people with a lot of study and knowledge should have a high respect. Even if people think the United States researchers in Africa are just using the people to help them with diseases that are in the United States too. Johanna makes the reader understand the position of the people and the
In John Iliffe book A story the African Aids Epidemic his argument about why Africa has had the worst HIV/AIDS epidemic is because it was the first epidemic. The virus was in Africa for a long time before actually becoming and epidemic or even having a name. The biggest problem that lead to the epidemic was the silence of the people”Silence expansion” (John, 158). People had the symptoms but did not speak out. Fear and shame was their main reason but also because they did not know about the virus even if they had symptoms. Before the disease was named the local people from Uganda and Tanzania called it “slim” because of the first six months “The virus existed in the Kinshasa region by 1959 and began to take epidemic form there by the mid 1970s” ( John,158 ). The different regions of Africa had different approaches to the disease, the origin place was in western equatorial Africa. There are multiple reasons why the epidemic spread so quickly “global expansion, and the circumstances into which it spread, giving particular weight among those circumstances to gender inequalities, sexual behavior, and impoverishment ” ( John, 58 ). Migrant workers and sex workers were the main reason for the epidemic. Men would have sex with sex workers that were infected and then go to their wife's and infect them too. Commercial sex and sex in poverty are other factor that Iliffe mentions on his book in how the virus became an epidemic. Women been forced to have …show more content…
When Johanna went back to Uganda in 2009 the doctors feel “uncomfortable” (Crane, 125) she interviewing them without compensation. She also said on her book that if they paid too little the senior doctors might be offended because all their study to not be paid so people know their knowledge. I did think that it was wrong that the Doctors wanted money for their interviews because their interviews were going to help her and other people know what and how Uganda was developing not just with their studies but noticing the support from the United States but I also understand that people with a lot of study and knowledge should have a high respect. Even if people think the United States researchers in Africa are just using the people to help them with diseases that are in the United States too. Johanna makes the reader understand the position of the people and the