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Title

HIV and AIDS in Africa : beyond epidemiology / edited by Ezekiel Kalipeni ... [et al.].

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

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Additional Authors

Kalipeni, Ezekiel, 1954-

Description

xvii, 398 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Summary

This work seeks to further our understanding of AIDS in Africa, using contributions from international experts from across the social sciences. It shifts the predominant understandings generated by biomedical and epidemiological research.

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) > Africa
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention & control
• Africa
• Developing Countries
• Sexual Behavior
• Socioeconomic Factors
• Vulnerable Populations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-374) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• AIDS, history & struggles over meaning / Brooke Grundfest Shoepf -- Politics, culture and medicine: an unholy trinity? Historical continuities and rupture in the HIV/AIDS story in Malawi / John Lloyd Lwanda -- Perceptions and misperceptions of AIDS in Africa / Joseph R. Oppong and Ezekiel Kalipeni -- Mapping the AIDS pandemic in eastern and southern Africa: a critical overview / Ezekiel Kalipeni, Susan Craddock, and Jayati Ghosh -- HIV/AIDS in west Africa: the case of Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria / Joseph R. Oppong and Samuel Agyei-Mensah -- Coercion, constraints and "cultural entrapments": a further look at gendered & occupational factors pertinent to the transmission of HIV in Africa / Anne V. Akeroyd -- Strategies for prevention of sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS among adolescents: the case of high school students in Kenya / Njeri Mbugua -- AIDS in Africa: structure, agency & risk / Brooke Grundfest Shoepf --^
• Culture, sexuality, and women's agency in the prevention of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa American Journal of Public health / Ida Susser and Zena Stein -- Migrancy, masculine identities and AIDS: the psychosocial context of HIV transmission on the South African gold mines / Catherine Campbell -- The invisible presence of homosexuality: implications for HIV/aIDS and rights in southern Africa / Oliver Phillips -- Urbanization, poverty, and sex: roots of risky behaviors in slum settlements in Nairobi, Kenya / Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo, Alex Chika Ezeh -- Mobile populations and HIV/AIDS in East Africa / Maryinez Lyons -- Understanding the African HIV pandemic: an appraisal of the contexts and lay explanation of the HIV/AIDS pandemic with examples from Tanzania and Kenya / Gabriel Rugalema --^
• Socioeconomic obstacles to HIV prevention and treatment in developing countries: the roles of the International Monetary Fund and The World Bank / Peter Lurie, Percy C. Hintzen, and Robert A. Lowe -- Participatory diagramming and the ethical & practical challenges of helping Africans themselves to 'map the issues' around HIV / Mike Kesby -- Community-based research on AIDS in the context of global inequalities: making a virtue of necessity? / Carolyn Baylies -- AIDS and ethics: clinical trials, pharmaceuticals, and global scientific practice / Susan Craddock -- Excerpt from We miss you all / Noerine Kaleeba -- Understanding AIDS in public lives / David Eaton -- Economic growth in Africa: the potential impact of HIV/AIDS / Lynn R. Brown -- Rising tide of AIDS orphans in southern Africa / Jayati Ghosh and Ezekiel Kalipeni -- Excerpt form Children of AIDS: Africa's orphan crisis: A mother to her brothers: a child-headed household's story, Johannesburg, South Africa / Emma Guest --^
• Concluding remarks: beyond epidemiology / Joseph R. Oppong and Jayati Ghosh.

ISBN

• 0631223568 (alk. paper)
• 0631223576 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003000322

OCLC

51446898

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library