AIDS, Culture, and Africa [electronic resource] /
Feldman, Douglas A.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2008.
Feldman's essays represent a range of original ideas methodologies, and suggestions that make a contribution to the field of AIDS research. The book examines key issues such as HIV transmission, condom use, sexual patterns, political factors gender, poverty, and behavioural change.
Feldman's essays represent a range of original ideas methodologies, and suggestions that make a contribution to the field of AIDS research. The book examines key issues such as HIV transmission, condom use, sexual patterns, political factors gender, poverty, and behavioural change.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Myths of science, myths of sex : homophobia and HIV vulnerability in Namibia / Robert Lorway -- HIV/AIDS prevention : strategies for improving prevention efforts in Africa / Elizabeth Onjoro Meassick -- Tugende Uganda : issues in defining "sex" and "sexual partners" in Africa / Susan McCombie and Ariela Eshel -- HIV/AIDS and the context of polygyny and other marital and sexual unions in Africa : implications for risk assessment and interventions / Teresa Swezey and Michele Teitlebaum -- Gender, poverty, and AIDS risk : case studies from rural Uganda / Charles B. Rwabukwali -- Culture in action : reactions to social responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa / Eleanor Preston-Whyte -- Conclusion : it's not just about AIDS--the underlying agenda to control HIV in Africa / Douglas A. Feldman.
AIDS, culture, and Africa : the anthropological perspective / Douglas A. Feldman -- Confounding conventional wisdom : the Ju/'hoansi and HIV/AIDS / Richard B. Lee and Ida Susser -- Gendered responses to living with AIDS : case studies in Rwanda / Ruth Kornfield and Stella Babalola -- A theory of social proximity : accounting for societal-level behavior change / Kate MacIntyre and Carl Kendall -- Male circumcision in the AIDS era : new relevance of an old topic / Judith E. Brown -- Factors that influence Ivorian women's risk perception of STIs and HIV / Kim Longfield -- Courage, conquest, and condoms : harmful ideologies of masculinity and sexual encounters in Zambia in the time of HIV/AIDS / Anthony Simpson -- Attitudes toward HIV/AIDS among Zambian high school students / Douglas A. Feldman ... [et al.] --
Description based on print version record.
Socioeconomic Factors
Sexual Behavior
Risk Assessment
Cultural Characteristics
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AIDS (Disease)