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AIDS: Learning From the Past, Looking Towards the Future

December 3, 2004

Pride Chigwedere AIDS researcher, Zimbabwe

As a way of marking World AIDS Day on December 1st, the Museum of Science welcomes clinician and researcher Pride Chigwedere from Zimbabwe to comment on the past two decades of international efforts to stem the spread of AIDS. Looking to the future, Chigwedere talks about prevention and treatment strategies drawn upon our knowledge of the disease, and the people it affects, looking at Africa as a case study.

This lecture is ASL interpreted.

Series:

Topics: Health & Happiness

Tags: AIDS | Anthropology | HIV

Presented By WGBH and Museum of Science, Boston:

Museum of Science, Boston

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