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This is a discussion-based interactive seminar on the two major issues that affect Sub-Saharan Africa: HIV/AIDS and Poverty. AIDS and Poverty, seemingly different concepts, are more inter-related to each other in Africa than in any other continent. As MIT students, we feel it is important to engage ourselves in a …
This is a discussion-based interactive seminar on the two major issues that affect Sub-Saharan Africa: HIV/AIDS and Poverty. AIDS and Poverty, seemingly different concepts, are more inter-related to each other in Africa than in any other continent. As MIT students, we feel it is important to engage ourselves in a dynamic discussion on the relation between the two - how to fight one and how to solve the other.
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![A Zambian AIDS patient.](/courses/es-253-aids-and-poverty-in-africa-spring-2005/dd50a4010a2a4b6272453828afed1e74_es-253s05.jpg)
An AIDS patient in the Mother Theresa Sick Bay in Lusaka, Zambia. (Photo courtesy of Raja Bobbili.)