AIDS, behavior, and culture : understanding evidence-based prevention / Edward C. Green and Allison Herling Ruark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Edward C. (Edward Crocker), 1944-

Contributor:

Ruark, Allison Herling.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Prevention.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

HIV infections--Prevention.

HIV infections.

HIV infections--Social aspects.

HIV Infections--prevention & control.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control.

Health Promotion.

Behavior.

Medical Subjects:

HIV Infections--prevention & control.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control.

Health Promotion.

Behavior.

Physical Description:

300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2011]

Summary:

This work presents a bold challenge to the prevailing wisdom of "the global AIDS industry" and offers an alternative framework for understanding what works in HIV. Arguing for a behavior-based approach, the authors make the case that the most effective programs are those that encourage fundamental behavioral changes such as faithfulness, avoidance of concurrent or overlapping sexual partners, delay of age of first sex, and complete recovery from drug addiction. Successful programs are locally based, low cost, low tech, innovative, and built on existing cultural structures. In contrast, they argue that anthropologists and public health practitioners focus on counseling, testing, condoms, and treatment, and impose their Western values, culture, and political ideologies in an attempt to "liberate" non-Western people from sexual repression and homophobia. This book is essential reading for anyone working in HIV/AIDS prevention, and a stimulating introduction to the key controversies and approaches in global health and medical anthropology.

Contents:

An anthropological approach to AIDS prevention

Sex, culture and disease

How the global AIDS response went wrong

Refocusing HIV prevention on primary prevention

Primary prevention in concentrated epidemics

Facts and myths about HIV prevention in generalized epidemics

Primary behavior change and HIV decline

HIV prevention and structural factors

Gender, marriage and HIV

An endogenous response to AIDS

Conclusion : where to from here?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-282) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Green, Edward C. (Edward Crocker), 1944- AIDS, behavior, and culture.

ISBN:

9781598744798

9781598744781

159874478X

1598744798

OCLC:

471810877

Publisher Number:

99969114249