Book contents
- The Origins of AIDS
- The Origins of AIDS
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Toponymy
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Out of Africa
- Chapter 2 The Source
- Chapter 3 The Timing
- Chapter 4 The Cut Hunter
- Chapter 5 The Scramble for Central Africa
- Chapter 6 Tropical Boom Towns
- Chapter 7 The Oldest Profession
- Chapter 8 Injections and the Transmission of Viruses
- Chapter 9 The Legacies of French Colonial Medicine
- Chapter 10 The Legacies of Belgian Tropical Medicine
- Chapter 11 The Other Human Immunodeficiency Viruses
- Chapter 12 From the Congo to the Caribbean
- Chapter 13 The Blood Trade
- Chapter 14 A Long Journey
- Chapter 15 Globalisation
- Chapter 16 A False Villain, a Genuine Hero
- Chapter 17 Epilogue
- References
- Index
Chapter 5 - The Scramble for Central Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2021
- The Origins of AIDS
- The Origins of AIDS
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Toponymy
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Out of Africa
- Chapter 2 The Source
- Chapter 3 The Timing
- Chapter 4 The Cut Hunter
- Chapter 5 The Scramble for Central Africa
- Chapter 6 Tropical Boom Towns
- Chapter 7 The Oldest Profession
- Chapter 8 Injections and the Transmission of Viruses
- Chapter 9 The Legacies of French Colonial Medicine
- Chapter 10 The Legacies of Belgian Tropical Medicine
- Chapter 11 The Other Human Immunodeficiency Viruses
- Chapter 12 From the Congo to the Caribbean
- Chapter 13 The Blood Trade
- Chapter 14 A Long Journey
- Chapter 15 Globalisation
- Chapter 16 A False Villain, a Genuine Hero
- Chapter 17 Epilogue
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 5 sets the stage for the rest of the story. While several infectious agents were exported from Africa to the Americas and the Caribbean during the slave trade, this was not the case with HIV, which indirectly confirms its relatively recent emergence in central African populations. This chapter briefly tells the story of the European colonisation of central Africa by France and Belgium. It explains how the Franco-Belgian incursion in south-east Cameroon during World War I (1914–16) created much greater intermingling of populations and may have provided a route for HIV to reach the Stanley Pool.
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- The Origins of AIDS , pp. 83 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021