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CloseGuide to Health at the ASA Conference
- HIV/AIDS
- 11/17, 3:00-5:00
- AIDS: State Power and International Politics
- 11/18, 8:30-10:30
- Roundtable: Africa's Dual Brain Drain: Migration & HIV/AIDS
- States, NGOs, and Health Provision: HIV/AIDS and Malaria in Africa
- 11/18, 10:45-12:45
- AIDS: Policies and Politics
- Roundtable: ARVs and African Economies: Externalities from Treatment for HIV/AIDS
- 11/18, 1:00-3:00
- Models, Strategies, and Perspectives in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
- 11/18, 3:15-5:15
- Roundtable: The Political Economy of AIDS Treatment in Africa: Transnational Policies, Drug Distribution, and National Contexts
- 11/20, 11:15-1:15
- State HIV/AIDS Policies and Their Effects on Citizens
- Health Economics
- 11/17, 12:45-2:45
- Economic Change: Implications for Health and Disease
- 11/17, 3:00-5:00
- Globalization, Export Commodities, and Health
- 11/18, 8:30-10:30
- Biotechnology and Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Promises, Propaganda, Politics?
- 11/18, 3:15-5:15
- Socio-Economic Context and the Risk of Disease
- 11/20, 9:00-11:00
- Livelihood Strategies and Urban Economies: Health, Schooling, and Employment
- Healthcare
- 11/17, 3:00-5:00
- Impediments to Health and Health Services in Africa
- 11/18, 8:30-10:30
- Politics, Disease, and Public Health: The Case of the Oromo in Ethiopia
- 11/19, 9:00-11:00
- Unhealthy States, Unhealthy Bodies, and Possibilities of Healing
- Emerging Health Issues in Independent Ghana
- 11/19, 11:15-1:15
- Healthcare and Prevention on the Continent
- Expertise, Autochtony, and Control Over Medical Knowledge
- 11/19, 3:00-5:00
- The Politics of Health and Knowledge: Responses to Women's Needs in Health and Humanitarian Crises
- 11/20, 9:00-11:00
- Roundtable: Projects, Products, and Services: A Look at Africa Health Policies in Practice
- 11/20, 11:15-1:15
- Health Care in South Africa: Experiment and Experience
- Health and History
- 11/17, 12:45-2:45
- Colonial and Post-Colonial Strategies of Disease Control
- 11/17, 3:00-5:00
- New Histories of Colonial Medicine
- Colonial Medicine and Health in Africa
- 11/18, 1:00-3:00
- Diseases, Indigenous Systems of Medicine, and Healthcare Among the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria
- 11/18, 1:00-3:00
- Alternative Approaches to African Historiography: Between Representations, Epistemology, and the Human Genome
- 11/19, 9:00-11:00
- Health and the Colonial Agency
- Health and Culture
- 11/18, 8:30-10:30
- Healing through the Visual and Textual in African Arts
- Language, Music, and Disease
- 11/18, 10:45-12:45
- Dangerous Outsiders: Women, Minorities, and Youth, and the Health of the Botswana Body/Politic
- 11/18, 1:00-3:00
- The African Body: Health and Beauty
- Wellness: Narratives of Representation
- Healthy Environments: Histories and Challenges
- Disease/Trauma and Literature
- Wellness: Narratives of Representation
- 11/18, 3:15-5:15
- Health, Ethics, and Panic
- Managing Reproductive Events through the Life Course
- The Body/Politic and Biomedical Frameworks: Infectious Diseases, Vulnerabilities, and Experimental Interventions
- Managing Reproductive Events through the Life Course
- 11/19, 9:00-11:00
- Roundtable: Democracy, Human Rights, and the Health of the African Body/Politic
- Perspectives on Pentecostal Healing
- 11/19, 11:15-1:15
- Health, Education, and Development
- 11/19, 3:00-5:00
- Defining Human Rights and the Moral Basis of Citizenship and Health
- 11/20, 9:00-11:00
- Gender Relations, Healthcare, and Education
- Ethnographic Turns and Cognitive Dissonance: Exploring Science, Magic, Healing, and Race
- 11/20, 11:15-1:15
- Rethinking the Medical: Affliction, Tradition, Pluralism
- Is Settling Good for Pastoralists? Health, Economic, and Political Consequences in Northern Kenya
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