South Africa is in the throes of an AIDS epidemic compounded by tuberculosis. Nevertheless, responses to the recent launch of a colorful book promoting adolescent knowledge of HIV immunopathogenesis provide grounds for cautious optimism that education can induce a form of “social vaccination” in South Africa and elsewhere.
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I would like to thank F. Balkwill, M. Rolph, J. Inglis, L. Gordon, L. Rabinowitz, C. Holt, J. Davies and L. Turley for their help in preparing this commentary. Photographs courtesy of M. Rolph.
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Gordon, S. Positive about HIV—an immunological education project in South Africa. Nat Immunol 3, 1115–1117 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni1202-1115
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