AIDS, intimacy and care in rural KwaZulu-Natal
Subtitle: a kinship of bones
By: Patricia C. Henderson
Series: Care and Welfare
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9789089643599
Subjects: AIDS (Disease); HIV-positive persons
Description: This book describes how HIV/AIDS became part of the lives of the people of the mountainous Okhahlamba in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. Based on extensive research in the area between 2003 and 2006, the author shows what impact the disease had - and still does - for adults and children, and the different ways people tried to find answers to the devastating presence of HIV / AIDS. Henderson focuses on informal care by family members and volunteers at a time when anti-retroviral drugs were not yet available. She also shows what it meant to the community once the drugs became available.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-242) and index.