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Waiting to happen : HIV/AIDS in South Africa : the bigger picture / Liz Walker, Graeme Reid, Morna Cornell.
Van Pelt Library RA643.86.S6 W357 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Liz (Reader in social work)
- Conference Name:
- AIDS in Context Conference (2001 : University of the Witwatersrand)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease).
- HIV infections--Social aspects.
- HIV infections.
- South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.
- HIV infections--South Africa.
- HIV infections--Social aspects--South Africa.
- HIV Infections--epidemiology.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--epidemiology.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--ethnology.
- HIV Infections--ethnology.
- Social Problems.
- Medical Subjects:
- HIV Infections--epidemiology.
- South Africa.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--epidemiology.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--ethnology.
- HIV Infections--ethnology.
- Social Problems.
- Physical Description:
- 143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner, 2004.
- Summary:
- Why are more women than men in South Africa HIV positive? What explains the exponential growth of AIDS in the country? How is HIV/AIDS understood in various cultural belief systems? What can be done about the epidemic? This powerful book -- incorporating evocative photographs and the voices of scholars, practitioners, and victims of the epidemic -- looks at the social, cultural, and historical aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
- Contents:
- Sex and power in South Africa
- 'An epidemic waiting to happen'
- Cultural collisions: popular understandings of HIV/AIDS
- Confronting the epidemic.
- Notes:
- Drawn from material presented at the AIDS in Context Conference, held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Apr. 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-139) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1588262634
- 1919930396
- OCLC:
- 53325583
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