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Globalization and Health BioMed Central Debate Open Access HIV/AIDS mitigation strategies and the State in sub-Saharan Africa – the missing link? 1 2 Abdu Mohiddin* and Deborah Johnston Address: 1Division of Health and Social Care Research, Guys, Kings and St Thomas School of Medicine, Kings College London, London SE1 3QD, UK and 2Department of Economics, School of Oriental African Studies, London WC1H 0XG, UK Email: Abdu Mohiddin* - abdumohiddin@.uk; Deborah Johnston - dj3@soas.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 17 January 2006 Received: 21 August 2005 Accepted: 17 January 2006 Globalization and Health 2006, 2:1 doi:10.1186/1744-8603-2-1 This article is available from: /content/2/1/1 © 2006 Mohiddin and Johnston; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa is widely recognised as a development disaster threatening poverty reduction, economic growth and not merely a health issue. Its mitigation includes the societal-wide adoption and implementation of specific health technologies, many of which depend on functional institutions and State. Discussion: Donor and Internat