HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : understanding the implications of culture & context /

HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : understanding the implications of culture & context /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cape Town, South Africa : UCT Press, 2009.
Description:	xvi, 144 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	AIDS (Disease) -- Africa. HIV infections -- Africa. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- Africa South of the Sahara. HIV Infections -- Africa South of the Sahara. Cultural Characteristics -- Africa South of the Sahara. Education -- Africa South of the Sahara. Gender Identity -- Africa South of the Sahara. AIDS (Disease) HIV infections. Africa.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8009099

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Other authors / contributors:	Baxen, Jean, 1957- Breidlid, Anders, 1947-
ISBN:	9789280811797 9280811797 9781919895185 1919895183
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-133) and index.
Summary:	Popular understanding of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is riddled with contradiction and speculation. This is revealed in HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, which explores the various contexts in which debate about HIV/AIDS takes place and examines how the pandemic is perceived by scholars, religious leaders and traditional healers, among others -- in communities in and around South Africa. Using a social theory lens, the book focuses on not only the cultural and contextual practices, but also the methodological and epistemological orientations around HIV/AIDS in education that shape community and individual interpretations of this disease. The book avoids a simplistic approach to the pandemic, by exploring the complex and sometimes contradictory spaces in which HIV/AIDS discourses are negotiated, and thus goes some way to present a more hermeneutic profile of the HIV/AIDS problem. HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa is as much about identity construction as it is about HIV/AIDS. The authors recognise the interrelatedness of sex, sexuality, identity and HIV/AIDS in the shaping of individual and collective identities and have thus gone beyond merely asking questions about what people know.

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Call Number:	RA643.86.A25 H58 2009
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