Unimagined community
Subtitle: sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa
By: Robert J. Thornton.
Series: California series in public anthropology -- 20
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780520255524; 9780520255531
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Uganda -- Epidemiology; AIDS (Disease) -- South Africa -- Epidemiology; AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Uganda; AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- South Africa; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology -- South Africa; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology -- Uganda; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control -- South Africa; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control -- Uganda; Anthropology, Cultural -- methods -- South Africa; Anthropology, Cultural -- methods -- Uganda; Health Policy -- South Africa; Health Policy -- Uganda; Sexual Behavior -- South Africa; Sexual Behavior -- Uganda; Socioeconomic Factors -- South Africa; Socioeconomic Factors -- Uganda
Description: The anthropological approach of this book helps to shed light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa - why HIV prevalence fell in Uganda during the 1990s despite that country having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while rising over the same period in South Africa, the country with the continent's lowest fetility rate.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: meaning and structure in the study of AIDS; title: Comparing Uganda and South Africa: sexual networks, family structure, and property; title: The social determinants of sexual network configuration; title: The "tightening chain": civil society and Uganda's response to HIV/AIDS; title: AIDS in Uganda: years of chaos and recovery; title: Siliimu as "native category": AIDS as local knowledge in Uganda; title: Uganda"s "indigenisation" of AIDS: governance and the political response in Uganda; title: South Africa's struggle: the omission and commission of truth about AIDS; title: Imagining AIDS: South Africa's viral politics; title: Flows of sexual substance: the sexual network in South Africa; title: Preventing AIDS: a new paradigm for a new strategy.