Making Sense of HIV in Southeastern Nigeria
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Title: Making Sense of HIV in Southeastern Nigeria : Fictional Narratives, Cultural Meanings, and Methodologies in Medical Anthropology Authors: Kate Winskell, Peter J. Brown, Amy E. Patterson, Camilla Burkot and Benjamin C. Mbakwem Medical Anthropology Quarterly 27(2): 193–214; 2013. This is the authors’ post-‐print. Please cite the final version of the article, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maq.12023. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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