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From now on you can submit your Masters thesis for the Africa Thesis Award. Are you interested in Sub-Saharan Africa and is your Masters thesis on a related subject? If so, the African Studies Centre in Leiden is offering you the chance to win €1000. Moreover, the winning thesis will be published in the ASC's African Studies Collection. Deadline for submissions: 11 July 2014.

Just published: African Studies Collection 49: Stigmatization of people associated with HIV can be devastating, even more so than the virus itself. It destroys the lives of HIV positive people and their loved ones. All too often in Ghana, those with no direct HIV experience do not see the depth of the impact of stigma on individuals, households and communities. This monograph, the result of fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in two communities in Ghana, brings to the fore the lived experiences of people infected with and affected by HIV from their own perspectives.