title: [AIDS and Aids: anthropological observations apropos the AIDS phenomenon in Lobaye, Central African Republic].
abstract: Human infestation by retrolentivirus which are incriminated in human disease called AIDS turns to be a "serious endemic". Once adequate medicine and vaccine discovered, it could perhaps be jugulated or eradicated in ethno-ecosystems combining a high socioeconomic level and a heavy attendance of efficient biomedicine. These criteria fit in neither with Quarter, nor with Third World, nor with worlds which do not think or live Health, Illness, Death, Misfortune in the same terms than those inspired by biomedical philosophies. Native logic apprehends AIDS as any form of sequence of misfortune, without taking care of its physiopathologic and epidemiologic specificity.
authors.affiliation: Médecin-ethnologue, CNRS (LP 3121, URA 882), Laboratoire d'ethnobiologie, Paris.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Epelboin
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D002488:Central African Republic; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D012660:Semantics; D014825:Vocabulary
vernacular_title: SIDA et Sida: réflexions anthropologiques à propos du "phénomène sidaique" en Lobaye, en République centrafricaine.