Resilience and contagion : invoking human rights in African HIV advocacy /

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Author / Creator:Kenyon, Kristi, author.
Imprint:Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2017.
Description:xiv, 362 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in gender, sexuality, and social justice in the Global South ; 2
McGill-Queen's studies in gender, sexuality, and social justice in the global south ; 2.
Subject:AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
HIV infections -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Patient advocacy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Services for -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
HIV-positive persons -- Services for -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Human rights -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Civil society -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
Human Rights.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Services for.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.
Civil society.
HIV infections -- Social aspects.
HIV-positive persons -- Services for.
Human rights.
Patient advocacy.
Africa South of the Sahara.
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11445274
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Varying Form of Title:Invoking human rights in African HIV advocacy
ISBN:9780773550995
0773550992
9780773550988
0773550984
9780773552296
9780773552302
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-351) and index.
"Primary sources": p. 231-289.
Summary:"HIV represents not only an unprecedented pandemic but also a site of civil society innovation. In the midst of devastation, activists in sub-Saharan Africa are progressing from traditional forms of health advocacy to strategies that engage human rights principles, techniques, and language. Employing a comparative case-study approach, Resilience and Contagion examines the efforts of nine local civil society organizations in Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, and Botswana. Kristi Heather Kenyon examines who adopts rights-based discourse and why, arguing that leadership, individual beliefs, and structure all play a critical role in framing advocacy. Beyond changing laws or policies, the most important impact of promoting the rights of people living with HIV, she attests, is that it enables individuals to interact with health services from a position of resilience, strength, and empowerment. This book delves into discourse at the juncture of human rights, social theory, and global health, prompting significant and relevant discussion on advocacy's evolution in the region of the world hit hardest by the HIV pandemic. Drawing on 145 interviews, extensive participant observation, and fascinating document analysis, Resilience and Contagion foregrounds the voices of civil society actors who have conducted the most vocal, widespread, and innovative advocacy to date"--
Other form:Kenyon, Kristi Heather, 1977-, author. Resilience and contagion. McGill-Queen's studies in gender, sexuality, and social justice in the Global South McGill-Queen's studies in gender, sexuality, and social justice in the Global South ;