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The aim of this book is not primarily to provide a discussion on estimates of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the country, rather it serves to highlight and offer an analysis of the actual impact of the epidemic in Mozambique, and to provide the readers and the government of Mozambique, if you will, with insights into the way HIV and AIDS has continued and will continue to affect civil society, the economy (agricultural sector and household) as well as the possible impacts it may have on the process of democratic consolidation if continued to be treated as just another epidemic...

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Nilza Cristina de Frederico Pessane Gaspar, MA: International Relations. Institutional Relations Officer, UNITEL, Angola

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