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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | HIV/AIDS in Africa: majority Muslim versus non-Muslim States |
Author: | Bangura, Abdul Karim |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | African Anthropologist (ISSN 1024-0969) |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 91-113 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | AIDS Islam |
Abstract: | This article examines the role of Islam in curbing the spread of one of the world's severest problems, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, notably in Africa. While African countries with a non-majority Muslim population have an average HIV/AIDS infection rate of 11.2 percent, countries with a majority Muslim population (i.e. more than 50 percent) have an average infection rate of about 1.6 percent. The article aims to explain this difference through a triangulative analysis of statistical data, the teachings of the Koran and the Hadith, and a literature review. The major focus is the five pillars of Islam and the (sexual) lifestyle practised by Muslims. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [ASC Leiden abstract] |