by Pepin
Sabin, Albert, 50
Sacramento, 138
Sahara desert, 74
Saigon, 135
San Francisco, 191, 214
Sanaga River, 18, 20
Sanaga-Maritime region, 225
Sangha, 210
Sangha River, 228
Sargodha, 106
schistosomiasis, 60, 110–11, 137, 148–50, 154See also antimonial drugs, Nilodin , tartar emetic
Schwarz, Alf, 100
Schwetz, Jacques, 143, 147
Scotland, 106, 206
Selembao district, 79
Senegal, 8, 14, 19, 57, 172–3, 175, 213See also Dakar
sex workers See prostitution
sexual tourism, 191–3,
sexually transmitted diseasesin the Belgian Congo, 91, 95–6, 158–66
in Cameroon, 91–2
in Congo-Brazzaville, 36, 92, 93
in Gabon, 90–1, 92–3
HIV among patients with, 9, 85, 211
and infertility, 78
in Oubangui-Chari, 93
among prostitutes, 90–3 See also chancroid, chlamydia , gonorrhoea , syphilis
Shilts, Randy, 1
Sierra Leone, 8, 53, 120, 172–3, 175, 190
Simao Mendes national hospital, 176
simian foamy virus, 43, 46
simian vacuolating virus, 50
SIVcpz, 23–31, 41, 46–50, 52, 169–70, 221–5, 227–8
SIVsmm, 50, 171–2, 178
slave trade, 35, 59–61, 62, 120, 222
sleeping sickness See African trypanosomiasis
Société de Construction des Batignolles, 35
Société Générale de Belgique, 67
Somoza, Anastasio, 206
Sonnet, Jean, 189
sooty mangabey, 104, 171–2, 175
South Africa, 2, 9, 12, 207, 213, 214–15, 231
South-West Africa, 66
Soviet Union, 110, 185, 215
Spain, 107, 199See also Equatorial Guinea
Spartacus Gay Guide, 192, 203
Stanleyville See Kisangani
streptomycin, 4, 104, 138, 163, 176–7
strongyloidiasis, 53
Sudan, 20, 190
sulphones, 136, 150, 177
suramin, 128, 137, 156
Swaziland, 9, 213
Sweden, 10, 190, 202
syphiliscontrol of, 102, 124, 156, 160–3, 166
epidemiology of, 92–3, 131–3, 138, 148, 165, 177, 204
history of, 54, 114–15, 121
treatment of, 90–1, 114–15, 131, 133, 144–5, 148, 160–3, 166, 229–30 See also arsenical drugs, bismuth salts , mercury salts , penicillin
Taï Forest, 172
Taiwan, 206
Tanganyika, 66
Tanzania, 9, 14, 18, 20, 21, 26, 52
tartar emetic, 110–11, 125, 128, 148
Tchad See Chad
testicular transplants, 55–8
Thailand, 40, 107, 206, 215, 219
Thysville, 184
Togo, 8, 66, 175
Tontons Macoutes, 201
transfusions, 159–60, 204, 217, 234
tryparsamide, 123, 125, 128, 139, 151
trypoxyl, 128
Tshombe, Moise, 82
tuberculosisclinical characteristics of, 32–3, 37–8, 154
epidemiology of, 138, 157–8, 160, 194
history of, 235
treatment of, 4, 104, 176See also streptomycin
Ubangui River, 18–20, 227
Uele region, 145
Uganda, 9, 14, 20, 26, 52, 193See also Kampala
Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, 67
United Nations, 66, 92, 101, 185, 187–8, 217–18
United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization, 188
Université Catholique de Louvain, 44, 181
University of Kinshasa, 10
Upper Nyong region, 124
urbanisation, 65, 66, 70–80, 158
Urundi See Burundi
Usumbura See Bujumbura
vaccines, 52, 104, 108, 138, 152, 153–4, 163, 197–8
Valencia, 106, 199
Van Bilsen, Jef, 181
Van Hoof, Lucien, 154–7
Van Wing, Joseph, 71, 94
Vancouver, 106
Venezuela, 60
Verhaegen, Benoit, 189
Vermeersch, Arthur, 88
viraemia, 12, 47–8, 85, 107, 173, 179
Voix du Congolais, 96–7
von Puttkamer, Jesko, 66
Voronoff, Serge, 55–8
Winterbottom, Thomas, 120
Wistar Institute, 50–2
World Health Organization, 187–8, 207, 217–18
World War I, 56, 66, 67, 120, 155
World War II, 73–5, 99, 115–16, 145, 152–3, 155, 159, 189–90
Yambuku, 7–8, 209
Yaoundéhepatitis C in, 112, 140
history of, 82, 228
HIV in, 168, 210–11, 212
population of, 70, 75
prostitution in, 96
yawsclinical characteristics of, 131
control of, 156, 224
epidemiology of, 131–3, 138, 140, 141, 148, 165–6, 177
treatment of, 131–4, 144–5, 148, 162–3, 177
yellow fever, 60, 115–16, 138, 152–4, 175
Yonda, 209See also arsenical drugs, bismuth salts , mercury salts , penicillin
Zaire See Congo, Democratic Republic of
Zambia, 9, 14, 96, 186, 212, 231
Zanzibar, 61
Zimbabwe, 9, 212, 231
ZR59, 10–11, 40, 41
Zulus, 12
