![A Zambian AIDS patient. A Zambian AIDS patient.](/courses/experimental-study-group/es-253-aids-and-poverty-in-africa-spring-2005/es-253s05.jpg)
An AIDS patient in the Mother Theresa Sick Bay in Lusaka, Zambia. (Photo courtesy of Raja Bobbili.)
Instructor(s)
Dr. Lee Perlman
Raja Bobbili
MIT Course Number
ES.253
As Taught In
Spring 2005
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This is a discussion-based interactive seminar on the two major issues that affect Sub-Saharan Africa: HIV/AIDS and Poverty. AIDS and Poverty, seemingly different concepts, are more inter-related to each other in Africa than in any other continent. As MIT students, we feel it is important to engage ourselves in a dynamic discussion on the relation between the two - how to fight one and how to solve the other.