type="main" <p>The AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is fertile ground for examining how moral evaluations evolve over time and across different settings. We compare the discourse on AIDS in Malawi as presented in the media with that of everyday conversations. Drawing on two sets of texts,...</p>

Public health programmes have done enormous good in Africa and elsewhere in the global south, but have also been met with skepticism. This skepticism often takes the form of rumours about the motives or the results of the public health intervention. One recurrent theme in such rumours is the...

Malawi is one of the world's most AIDS-afflicted countries. In order to cope with the AIDS pandemic, we must know what the people most at risk think about it, how they evaluate their situation and that of their community, and what actions they would consider adopting to lower their risk....

The female condom is the latest in a series of sexual and reproductive technologies to be imported into the third world, following the contraceptive pill, the Depo-Provera injection, the latex male condom, and others. It is an example of "traveling technology", which accrues different meanings...

Testing for HIV is becoming more available in Africa. Global advocates of testing see it as key to AIDS prevention. However, testing is not always perceived as a good thing by people at risk. Here, we consider testing from the perspective of people in a high-prevalence community. Using...