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Shifting Paradigms and the Politics of AIDS in Zambia
- African Studies Review
- African Studies Association
- Volume 52, Number 3, December 2009
- pp. 33-53
- 10.1353/arw.0.0319
- Article
- Additional Information
This article explores how international discourses on AIDS prevention have been incorporated into national-level programs that promote particular lifestyle and livelihood strategies in Zambia, particularly within the realms of wife inheritance, widowhood, and marriage. In response, Zambian communities have recast these narratives to inform local political economies, identities, and struggles for power. Often community and national-level efforts work at odds with each other, as each seeks to legitimize various moralities and codes of behavior. At the local level actors choose the strategies that most effectively mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS and also enhance their overall well-being.