THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF HIV AND AIDS IN UGANDA
JAN KUHANEN
UNIVERSITY OF JOENSUU
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Uganda has been in the world headlines since the mid-1980s, first as a
nation severely hit by HIV and AIDS, and later, from the late 1990s
onwards, as the first country in sub-Saharan Africa that has managed to
reverse a generalised HIV epidemic. Countless newspaper articles, televi-
sion and radio documentaries and broadcasts, papers, books, and films have
been produced about AIDS in Uganda, making the epidemic one of the
most thoroughly researched and documented in the world. Medical doctors,
virologists, epidemiologists and social and behavioral