Abstract
This issue of Practicing Anthropology brings together panel papers focusing on HIV/AIDS in Africa presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Tampa in 2007. These papers discuss various topics related to HIV/AIDS in different African countries: the association between gender and HIV infections, the consequences for the epidemic of the shortage of health workers, the importance of ethical considerations in developing protocols for HIV/AIDS interventions, local interpretations of, and reactions to, methods preventing new HIV infections, and the impact of resource insecurities on HIV/AIDS programs.