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In the absence of vaccine or cure, teaching how to avoid infection seems to be the only strategy for epidemic control. Declining figures of new infection suggest that pedagogic efforts have had a modest success. To enhance its effectiveness, the assumptions underlying pedagogic interventions and their effects must be examined. Given the multiple contexts of the epidemic, it is necessary to examine AIDS pedagogy from an interdisciplinary perspective, and the humanities can be a valuable critical resource in this effort.
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The term was introduced in NACP III, though the strategy had been adopted in the previous phase.
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Interdisciplinarity has no methodology, that is, no overarching framework of procedures and rules of analysis, and no logos that grounds it in a singular animating principle.
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Das, D.K. (2019). AIDS Awareness and Behaviour Change: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. In: Teaching AIDS. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6120-3_1
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