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Sandy Sufian

Sandy Sufian is an assistant professor of medical humanities and history at the University of Illinois- Chicago and the founder of the Global Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa. She is the author of Healing the

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HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa

Have the Middle East and North Africa largely escaped the global AIDS epidemic? The available data seems to say so. UNAIDS reports that, at the close of 2003, there were 480,000 adults and children living with HIV/AIDS in the Arab world, Iran, Israel and Turkey. Compared to sub-Saharan Africa, where

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