HIV and East Africa: Thirty Years in the Shadow of an Epidemic

This book is about life in the time of the HIV epidemic in Eastern Africa. By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, the author explores the impact of the epidemic on people’s lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades.

While the story inevitably touches on loss and suffering, the message is also about managing the impa...