Women, the law, and HIV/AIDS in Africa
Subtitle: a conundrum for the legislature?
By: Florence Shu-Acquaye, Dora Mbanya, Stella Chungong
Publisher: Vandeplas Publishing; Vandeplas Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lake Mary, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781600420375
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) in women; Patients; Legal status, laws; HIV-positive persons; Women; Social conditions; Health and hygiene; Sociological aspects
Table of contents: title: General overview of HIV/AIDS in Africa; title: The socio-cultural dimensions of HIV/AIDS and women in Africa; title: Is there a necessity for a law to govern people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa?: the case of Cameroon; title: What do people have to say about HIV/AIDS in Africa?: the Cameroonian perspective; title: The Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the African woman: how far have they progressed?; title: Policy, human rights, and HIV/AIDS in Africa-what progress?