FROM GLOBALIZATION TO INCULTURATION
Paradigm Shift in Negotiating the HIV/AIDS Dilemma in the African Context within the Framework of Fides et Ratio, art. 72
Keywords:
GLOBALIZATION, INCULTURATIONAbstract
To assert the global nature of HIV/AIDS is to state the obvious.
Different studies and rationalities attest to the truth that HIV/AIDS
does not have a well-defined geographically limited spread.1 The
cosmopolitan nature of HIV/AIDS as seen in the statistics does not
however undermine the fact that the effects of this sickness are not
felt proportionally from one nation to another. This paper proposes to
situate the local as a veritable site of empowerment for communities
dealing with HIV/AIDS, as it is the case with the African continent.
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