Waiting to happen : HIV/AIDS in South Africa : the bigger picture

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Title:

Waiting to happen : HIV/AIDS in South Africa : the bigger picture

Author:

Walker, Liz.

ISBN:

9781588262639

Personal Author:

Walker, Liz.

Publication Information:

Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner, 2003.

Physical Description:

143 p. : ill. ; 25cm.

General Note:

Drawn from material presented at the AIDS in Context Conference, held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Apr. 2001.

Contents:

Foreword / Edwin Cameron -- 1. Sex and power in South Africa -- 2. 'An epidemic waiting to happen' -- 3. Cultural collisions: popular understandings of HIV/AIDS -- 4. Confronting the epidemic.

Abstract:

"This powerful book - incorporating evocative photographs and the voices of scholars, practitioners, and victims of the epidemic - looks at the social, cultural, and historical aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

AIDS (Disease) -- South Africa.

AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- South Africa.

HIV infections -- South Africa.

HIV infections -- Social aspects -- South Africa.

HIV Infections -- epidemiology -- South Africa.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology -- South Africa.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- ethnology -- South Africa.

HIV Infections -- ethnology -- South Africa.

Social Problems -- South Africa.

Added Author:

Reid, Graeme.

Cornell, Morna.

Added Conference Author:

AIDS in Context Conference, (2001 : University of the Witwatersrand)

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Why are more women than men in South Africa HIV positive? What explains the exponential growth of AIDS in the country? How is HIV/AIDS understood in various cultural belief systems? What can be done about the epidemic? This powerful book - incorporating evocative photographs and the voices of scholars, practitioners, and victims of the epidemic - looks at the social, cultural, and historical aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.