The fight against HIV/AIDS: comments on the work of Nianguiry Kante

Abstract

Nianguiry Kanté was a sociologist and research director, formerly affiliated with the now-named National Institute of Public Health Research. He then retired to the newly established University of Ségou as the first dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FASSO) in December 2016. "Dean," as his students affectionately called him, passed away on September 13, 2021. However, he never truly left this world, as evidenced by the African Journal of Social Sciences (ISSN 1987-071X e-ISSN 1987-1023), which he founded and which published over 276 articles from some twenty countries between January 2010 and June 2021. Indeed, this World AIDS Day (December 1) provides another opportunity to remember Professor Nianguiry Kanté. One of Professor Kanté's research areas is the sociology and anthropology of health. In 2012, he was a founding member of the Pan-African Congress of Anthropologists, where he served as deputy treasurer. For this anthropologist, health is, in a way, the mark left on bodies by social, economic, environmental, and geopolitical influences.