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Article Evaluation[edit]
Overall, HIV/AIDS in Malawi is a very good article. The information presented is very relevant to the topic, including a brief description of Malawi's relevant political history, awareness campaigns, education, economic ramifications, and the different ways HIV affects men, women, and children. It would be nice to add a description of the way HIV affects different age groups in Malawi, but that information may not be available. The article is neutral in tone and does not make judgements about people's reasons for reticence to use condoms or about sex work or other potentially controversial topics, which is very important to a good Wikipedia article. The citation links that I clicked on worked and there were a good number of neutral, trustworthy sources including international charity organizations and peer reviewed journal articles. It has a good article ranking and is part of WikiProjects on Africa, Medicine, and Viruses.
The stub article HIV-affected community is much less informational and interesting than "HIV/AIDS in Malawi." It doesn't inspire deeper digging simply whereas the first article does because it's clear that there is a good deal of information about HIV/AIDS in Malawi, which makes it clear that there is more to be found elsewhere. This is potentially an unpopular position, but there are certainly article stubs on Wikipedia which would be more interesting than this one.
The first article doesn't really represent older generations of Malawians and how HIV has affected them, besides a brief mention that they often times have to take in orphaned family members. It also only very briefly mentions MSMs, who are often at a high risk for HIV but unwilling to talk about their sexual habits. Some of the other information is also out of date, for example the awareness and risk perception section has studies from more than 10 years ago. Unlike class discussions, it doesn't reference any Malawian HIV positive AIDS activists, but Malawi may have had a less prevalent PWA movement than the United States.
What's a content gap?[edit]
A content gap is when a particular topic doesn't get an in-depth exploration on Wikipedia. This could be when an article about a topic is missing information about a particular opinion or subtopic or when no article exists about a topic. Content gaps can arise because people don't feel that they understand the subject well enough to write about it, because it's a complicated topic that seems hard to tackle, because many people go straight to scholarly sources, or because the topic is controversial. They can be remedied by research and by more Wikipedians from the area writing about it. It does matter who writes Wikipedia– it's most important that people are committed to upholding Wikipedia's article standards, but it's also helpful if people who write articles have background knowledge about a topic because it makes writing good articles easier. Being unbiased on Wikipedia not only means presenting all sides of a topic, it means using unbiased and reputable sources as well as not drawing conclusions in the article. While this is similar to being unbiased in my opinion, usually unbiased information is used to draw a conclusion eventually, which should be left to the article reader in the context of wikipedia.
HIV/AIDS in Senegal[edit]
The HIV/AIDS in Senegal article could benefit from a more fleshed out history section as well information about the economic impact of HIV/AIDS, the different ways HIV/AIDS has affected different groups in Senegal (age, gender, etc), more statistics, education efforts, and prevention/treatment campaigns.
Potential Sources:[edit]
https://www.cdc.gov/globalaids/global-hiv-aids-at-cdc/countries/senegal/
http://www.unaids.org/en/regionscountries/countries/senegal
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953614007709
https://search.proquest.com/docview/1009895976?pq-origsite=summon&accountid=15172
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