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cice-11343	Vavrus, Frances	The Contributions of Cultural Theory to the Study of AIDS and Education	2000	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2591	95	50	© 2002 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 66 December 1, 2000 The Contributions of Cultural Theory to the Study of AIDS and Education Frances Vavrus Teachers College, Columbia University The social and biomedical dimensions of AIDS coalesce in the field of education as students and teachers struggle to make sense out of the multiple, and oftentimes conflicting, messages about the disease circulating inside and outside their classrooms. Johnny Sachs (this issue) provides a poignant example of this struggle in the case of South Africa, where President Thabo Mbeki has questioned the prevailing view that HIV causes AIDS and can be effectively treated with anti-retroviral drugs.	cache/cice-11343.pdf	txt/cice-11343.txt