Working Misunderstandings: Donors, Brokers, and Villagers in Africa's AIDS Industry

Population and Development Review

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 197-218

  Watkins, Susan Cotts ^a   Swidler, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DISEASE CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; RURAL AREA;

AFRICA;

EID: 84874163610     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00560.x     Document Type: Article

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