The social meanings of death from HIV/AIDS: an African interpretative view

This paper looks at the social meanings of death from HIV/AIDS within the context of the Christian and African religious schema as they pertain in Kenya today. By drawing parallels between Christian and African religious interpretations of death, it has been shown that HIV/AIDS is not just viewed as a biomedical pathological condition that occasions physical demise, but a social pathology which through stigmatization has given rise to spiritual death. Incl. abstracts in French and Spanish.