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Letting them die : why HIV/AIDS intervention programmes fail / Catherine Campbell.
Van Pelt Library RA643.86.S6 C36 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Catherine, 1959-
- Series:
- African issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease)--Prevention.
- South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease)--Prevention--South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 214 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : International African Institute in association with James Currey ; Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Today in South Africa, HIV/AIDS kills about 5 in 10 young people. Many of the victims are miners and commercial sex workers who ply their trade in mining communities. In this critique of government-sponsored and privately funded HIV/AIDS prevention programs in South Africa, Catherine Campbell exposes why it has been so difficult to stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Campbell's research focuses on local vectors of the disease such as what people believe about the spread and prevention of AIDS, what measures they take to prevent disease, and whether they are likely to seek treatment at local AIDS clinics. ""Letting Them Die" is not just an investigation into sexuality, social relations, health, and medicine; it is also a sharp review of the kinds of programs that are becoming the standard method of HIV/AIDS intervention throughout Africa.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0852558686
- 0852558678
- 0253343283
- 0253216354 (INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
- OCLC:
- 50783610
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