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Combating AIDS from Boston to Durban

Sub-Saharan Africa

by  |  on February 18th, 2009  |  2 comments

The Boston Globe has a story about a partnership between a prominent Boston AIDS doctor, Bruce Walker, and an unexpected partnership he has formed in South Africa. As important as government and international action is in addressing Africa’s HIV-AIDS epidemic, it is important to remember that these sorts of partnerships in the scientific and medical community are every bit as crucial.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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