‘The epidemic in this country has the face of a woman’Footnote¹

1 Nomfundu Eland, chairperson of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) women's sector, who was addressing the ‘HIV Prevention for Women and Girls summit’ in Johannesburg (see Magamdela, 2009).

: Gender and HIV/AIDS in South AfricaFootnote²

2 Part of this article is based on Gilbert & Selikow (2010), reproduced with permission of Palgrave.

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