HIV and East Africa

By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, Janet Seeley investigates 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.

Janet Seeley holds a PhD is social anthropology from the University of Cambridge (1985). She has been actively engaged in research on HIV and AIDS since the late 1980s, including four years with MRC in Uganda 1989-1993 when she was responsible for setting up social science research in the Unit, the Programme she returned to Uganda to head in 2008. She has worked in a number of different countries over the last 30 years.

1. Learning to Live with HIV 2. Loss and Grief 3. Crises and Change 4. Progress and Growth 5. The Changing Epidemic: Treatment and Care 6. Managing Loss, Forgetting the Pain?