Unimagined Community Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa

Name: Unimagined Community Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa
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ISBN: 9780520255531

ISBN-10: 0520255534

ISBN-13: 9780520255531

Edition: 2008

Authors: Robert Thornton

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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 networks--rather than changes in individual behavior--were responsible for these radical differences in HIV prevalence. Incorporating such factors as property, mobility, social status, and political…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note on Ethnic Names and Languages


Preface



Introduction: Meaning and Structure in the Study of AIDS



Comparing Uganda and South Africa: Sexual Networks, Family Structure, and Property



The Social Determinants of Sexual Network Configuration



The Tightening Chain: Civil Society and Uganda's Response to HIV/AIDS



AIDS in Uganda: Years of Chaos and Recovery



Siliimu as Native Category: AIDS as Local Knowledge in Uganda



The Indigenization of AIDS: Governance and the Political Response in Uganda



South Africa's Struggle: The Omission and Commission of Truth about AIDS



Imagining AIDS: South Africa's Viral Politics



Flows of Sexual Substance: The Sexual Network in South Africa



Preventing AIDS: A New Paradigm for a New Strategy


Notes


References


Index