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Epstein sheds new light on cause of HIV crisis in Africa
By
Andrew Wells
| March 5, 2008
While many scholars have pointed to a lack of condom use and impulsive promiscuity in examining the prevalence of HIV in southeast Africa, the practice of men and women having multiple long-term, concurrent sexual relationships may be more to blame, author Helen Epstein said in her lecture, "The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS," on Tuesday afternoon in Filene auditorium. Epstein is the author of a book by the same name. According to Epstein's theory, there are high rates of HIV in societies where individuals often have two or more continuous sexual partners.
