Scrambling for Africa - AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science - Grand Format

Countries in sub-saharan Africa were once dismissed by western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted by some of the most prestigious research universities in the world as they search for "resource-poor" hospitals in which to base their international HIV research and global health programs.
In Scrambling for Africa, Johanna Tayloe Crane reveals how, in the space of merely a decade, Africa went from being a continent largely excluded Iron advancements in HIV medicine to an area of central concern and knowledge production within the increasingly popular field of global health science.