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Author Thornton, Robert J

Title Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Series California Series in Public Anthropology
California series in public anthropology.
Contents Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Ethnic Names and Languages; Preface; 1. Introduction: Meaning and Structure in the Study of AIDS; 2. Comparing Uganda and South Africa: Sexual Networks, Family Structure, and Property; 3. The Social Determinants of Sexual Network Configuration; 4. The Tightening Chain: Civil Society and Uganda's Response to HIV/AIDS; 5. AIDS in Uganda: Years of Chaos and Recovery; 6. Siliimu as Native Category: AIDS as Local Knowledge in Uganda; 7. The Indigenization of AIDS: Governance and the Political Response in Uganda
8. South Africa's Struggle: The Omission and Commission of Truth about AIDS9. Imagining AIDS: South Africa's Viral Politics; 10. Flows of Sexual Substance: The Sexual Network in South Africa; 11. Preventing AIDS: A New Paradigm for a New Strategy; Notes; References; Index
Summary This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined differences in the structure of sexual networksrather than changes in individual behaviorwere responsible for these radical differences in HIV
Analysis 20th century south african history
20th century ugandan history
african history
aids in africa
aids prevention
aids transmission
aids
anthropology
civil society
disease
doctor
family structure
fertility rate
global disaster
healthcare
hiv prevalence
hiv
individual behavior
local knowledge
medicine
mobility
omission
political authority
political response
politics
property
sex
sexual networks
sexual transmission
social status
south africa
uganda
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Uganda -- Epidemiology
AIDS (Disease) -- South Africa -- Epidemiology
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Uganda
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- South Africa
Medical policy.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control
Anthropology, Cultural -- methods
Health Policy
Sexual Behavior
Socioeconomic Factors
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- AIDS & HIV.
MEDICAL -- AIDS & HIV.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Medical policy
AIDS (Disease) -- Epidemiology
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
Epidemiology
SUBJECT South Africa -- Epidemiology
Uganda -- Epidemiology
South Africa https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013019
Uganda https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014454
Subject South Africa
Uganda
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007046954
ISBN 9780520942653
0520942655
0520255534
0520255526
9780520255524
9780520255531
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9781282360778
9786612360770
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