Global Health in Africa (eBook)

Acknowledgments
Introduction
James L. A. Webb, Jr. and Tamara Giles-Vernick

Part I. Looking Back
One: The Long History of Smallpox Eradication
Lessons for Global Health in Africa
William H. Schneider
Two: The First Large-Scale Use of Synthetic Insecticide for Malaria Control in Tropical Africa
Lessons from Liberia, 1945–62
James L. A. Webb, Jr.
Three: A Genealogy of Treatment as Prevention (TasP)
Prevention, Therapy, and the Tensions of Public Health in African History
Guillaume Lachenal
Four: The True Fiasco
The Treatment and Prevention of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Uganda, 1950–74
Jennifer Tappan
Part II. The Past in the Present
Five: People, Great Apes, Disease, and Global Health in the Northern Forests of Equatorial Africa
Tamara Giles-Vernick and Stephanie Rupp
Six: Defenseless Bodies and Violent Afflictions in a Global World
Blood, Iatrogenesis, and Hepatitis C Transmission in Egypt
Anne Marie Moulin
Seven: “Snake in the Belly”
Africa’s Unhappy Experience with Cholera during the Seventh Pandemic, 1971 to the Present
Myron Echenberg

Part III. The Past in the Future
Eight: Male Circumcision and HIV Control in Africa
Questioning Scientific Evidence and the Decision-Making Process
Michel Garenne, Alain Giami, and Christophe Perrey
Nine: Heroin Use, Trafficking, and Intervention Approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa
Local and Global Contexts
Sheryl McCurdy and Haruka Maruyama

About the Contributors
Index