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Publication details [#46103]

Drescher, Martina. 2007. Global and local alignments in HIV/AIDS prevention trainings: A case study from Burkina Faso. Communication & Medicine 4 (1) : 3–14.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | discourse analysis | disease terminology | education | health

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper argues that HIV/AIDS discourses in Burkina Faso, and presumably in most Sub-Saharan countries, are distinguished by discursive heteroglossia, with participants aligning to local and global HIV discourses, used in health workers communication.