(California Series in Public Anthropology. 15.) By Didier Fassin. Translated by Amy Jacobs and Gabrielle Varro. 365 pp. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. $55 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-520-24467-2 (cloth); 978-0-520-25027-7 (paper).
By the mid-1990s, the health transition in South Africa wasalready under way — infant and child mortality rates wereimproving, allowing the focus to move to adult health issues.Seven years later, a change in the pattern of deaths was seen;the most striking change was among young adults, particularlyyoung women. Young women were dying in unprecedented numbers.By 2003, the number of women dying between the ages of 30 and35 years equaled the number of women dying between the agesof 75 and 80 years — and it was all due to infection withthe human . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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