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Personal Perspective: Mchape: A Wake-up Call for AIDS Control Programs in Africa (A Case History from Malawi)

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 12, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 136-43
S. Waldorf

Dr. Waldorf, with her late husband, economist William H. Waldorf, World Bank/UNDP consultant, has worked and taught in Africa and Asia since the 1970s. . . . She spent 1990-1993 at a small arrondissement (subdistrict) hospital in Mbe, Cameroon, where she identified (and confirmed) the first two AIDS cases in the district, and initiated an AIDS-prevention program at the lycee (high school) level. From 1994-1996, she worked at the Chitipa District Hospital and helped set up its District AIDS Office.
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