A site devoted to thoughts about books, reading, and libraries relevant to Africa mostly by Michael Kevane, co-Director of Friends of African Village Libraries, a small 501(c)(3) non-profit devoted to helping village and small community libraries in Africa. I am also an economist at Santa Clara University. Other frequent contributors are Kate Parry, FAVL-East Africa director, and Anne-Reed Angino, FAVL networker extraordinaire! For more information see the FAVL website, http://www.favl.org
Monday, September 08, 2008
Follow-up on literacy and HIV/AIDS
Earlier I reproduced mystery novelist Henning Mankell's comment about how important literacy is for stemming the tide of HIV/AIDS. In case you thought anti-retrovirals were taking care of that problem... in case you thought it was an invisible problem, read pediatric nurse SDG's posting about Sammy K.
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