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Reframing the HIV/AIDS debate in developing countries II: case stories of Nigerian rural people living with HIV/AIDS

Submitted: 16 March 2004 Published: 1 June 2004 Full text: You can view the full article, or view a printable version. Comments: (login to access the comments on this article) Author(s) : Etokidem A, Udonwa N.

Aniekan Etokidem Ndifreke Udonwa

Citation: Etokidem A, Udonwa N.  Reframing the HIV/AIDS debate in developing countries II: case stories of Nigerian rural people living with HIV/AIDS. Rural and Remote Health 4 (online), 2004: 282. Available from: http://www.rrh.org.au

Since it was first officially reported in Nigeria in 1984, HIV/ AIDS has continued to spread in the country to the extent that today it constitutes a major problem. The two case stories of Nigerian rural people living with HIV/AIDS presented in this article were selected from 200 such stories that were compiled against the backdrop of the impact of scarcity of resources on care and support for People Living With HIV/AIDS from Nigerian rural communities.

This article was presented during the ‘HIV/AIDS in the Developing World workshop’ of the 2003 WONCA World Rural Health Congress, Santiago de Compostela, Spain and is presented here as second in the Congress series.

Key words: AIDS, HIV, NGO, Nigeria, stories.

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