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

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Label

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

Title remainder

understanding the implications of culture & context

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jean Baxen, Anders Breidlid

Contributor

• Baxen, Jean, 1957-
• Breidlid, Anders, 1947-

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) -- Africa
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Africa South of the Sahara
• Cultural Characteristics
• Education
• Gender Identity
• HIV Infections
• HIV infections -- Africa

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Dewey number

362.196/979200967

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

RA643.86.A25

LC item number

H58 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

WC 503

NLM item number

H67228 2009