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

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Author / Creator:Kenyon, Kristi Heather, 1977- author.
Imprint:Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Description:1 online resource
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:Berner Handelskammer
AIDS (Disease) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Social advocacy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Human rights -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
Human Rights.
Sida -- Afrique subsaharienne.
Défense des droits économiques et sociaux -- Afrique subsaharienne.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) -- Afrique subsaharienne.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
AIDS (Disease)
Human rights.
Social advocacy.
Aids
Gemeinnützige Organisation
Gesundheitspolitik
Medizinische Versorgung
Menschenrecht
Africa South of the Sahara.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Subsaharisches Afrika
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11758609
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ISBN:9780773552296
0773552294
9780773552302
0773552308
0773550992
9780773550995
0773550984
9780773550988
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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 determines who adopts rights-based discourse and why, arguing that leadership, individual beliefs, and structure all play a critical role in framing organizations. Beyond changing laws or policies, the most important impact of promoting patients' rights, she attests, is that it enables individuals living with HIV 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- Resilience and contagion.: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017] ©2017 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 ;