AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, Bond, George Clement

Автор: Olatunji Ojo, Nadine Hunt
Название: Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean: A History of Enslavement and Identity Since the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 1350161284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350161283
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 42390.00 T
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Описание: For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across the world to be sold into slavery. The history of this startling and horrific period is perennially important, and recent scholarship has sought to uncover the experiences of the slaves themselves in order to uncover the voices of its many victims. "Slavery and Africa in the Caribbean" analyses the written sources which have survived, demonstrating how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European and Islamic systems of slavery. An important work based on Jamaican and African archival sources, this book will appeal to students and scholars who are interested in slavery, gender, identity, religion, colonialism and the African diaspora.

Автор: Rubenstein, Hymie
Название: Coping With Poverty
ISBN: 0367163624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367163624
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book deals with the theoretical and empirical issues by describing the causes and consequences of poverty in Leeward Village. It explores how poor villagers deal with the problem of securing a livelihood-of getting enough food, clothing, shelter, and other life-sustaining necessities.

Автор: Schneider William H.
Название: The History of Blood Transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 0821420372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821420379
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Цена: 30870.00 T
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This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic. The introduction of transfusion held great promise for improving health, but like most new medical practices, transfusion needed to be adapted to the needs of sub-Saharan Africa, for which there was no analogous treatment in traditional African medicine.

This otherwise beneficent medical procedure also created a “royal road” for microorganisms, and thus played a central part in the emergence of human immune viruses in epidemic form. As with more developed health care systems, blood transfusion practices in sub-Saharan Africa were incapable of detecting the emergence of HIV. As a result, given the wide use of transfusion, it became an important pathway for the initial spread of AIDS. Yet African health officials were not without means to understand and respond to the new danger, thanks to forty years of experience and a framework of appreciating long-standing health risks. The response to this risk, detailed in this book, yields important insight into the history of epidemics and HIV/AIDS.

Drawing on research from colonial-era governments, European Red Cross societies, independent African governments, and directly from health officers themselves, this book is the only historical study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa.

Автор: Beckmann Nadine, Gusman Alessandro, Schroff Catrin
Название: Strings Attached: AIDS and the Rise of Transnational Connections in Africa
ISBN: 0197265685 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197265680
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Цена: 88440.00 T
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Описание: Religion and AIDS are transforming African public and private domains. This book questions why so much of the transnational religious engagement has seemed to serve conservative values, and explores connections between Europe/North America and Africa highlighting how these carry both financial resources for HIV/AIDS work and moral values.

Автор: Susan Hunter
Название: Black death AIDS in Africa
ISBN: 1403967172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403967176
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Автор: Sholto Cross; Alan Whiteside
Название: Facing up to AIDS
ISBN: 0333669894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333669891
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 121960.00 T
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Описание: In this study of AIDS in Southern Africa, economists, demographers and health planners present methods of understanding the likely course of the disease, drawn from recent research and thinking by social scientists on the relationship between epidemic disease, economic growth and human resources.

Автор: Sholto Cross; Alan Whiteside
Название: Facing up to AIDS
ISBN: 0333669908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333669907
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 48780.00 T
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Описание: In this study of AIDS in Southern Africa, economists, demographers and health planners present methods of understanding the likely course of the disease, drawn from recent research and thinking by social scientists on the relationship between epidemic disease, economic growth and human resources.

Автор: Max Essex; Souleymane Mboup; Phyllis J. Kanki; Ric
Название: AIDS in Africa
ISBN: 1475787065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781475787061
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 121960.00 T
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Описание: This comprehensive reference book addresses the unique challenges facing many African nations as poor infrastructure and economics continue to obstruct access to advanced treatments and AIDS care training.

Автор: Getnet Tadele; Helmut Kloos
Название: Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 1349436208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349436200
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 40650.00 T
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Описание: This book examines HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities, impacts and responses in the socioeconomic and cultural context of Sub-Saharan Africa. With contributions from social scientists and public health experts, the volume identifies gender inequality and poverty as the main causes of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

Автор: Lombe
Название: Children and AIDS
ISBN: 0754677818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754677819
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The disproportional loss of individuals to HIV/AIDS in their most productive years raises concerns over the welfare of surviving members of affected families and communities. One consequence of the rapid increase in adult mortality is the rise in the proportion of children who are orphaned. Sub-Saharan Africa, accounts for about 90 percent of these. Mainly due to the staggering toll of HIV/AIDS, research effort has focused on treatment and prevention. Children have received attention primarily in relation to 'mother to child transmission' and paediatric AIDS. These issues are important and compelling but fail to capture the whole story - the unprecedented surge in the number of children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. In this book we reflect on the plight of children classified as vulnerable, review interventions implemented to improve their welfare and grapple with the concept of vulnerability as it relates to human rights and the African child.

Автор: A. Wilson
Название: Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi
ISBN: 1349458376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349458370
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 44710.00 T
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Описание: Informal folk narrative genres such as gossip, advice, rumor, and urban legends provide a unique window into popular formations of AIDS and gender conflict in Africa. The first book on the subject to draw primarily on such narratives, this book shows how they provide rich insights into the struggles of people living in an era of social upheaval.

Автор: Powers Theodore
Название: Sustaining Life: AIDS Activism in South Africa
ISBN: 0812252004 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812252002
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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An ethnographic account of the South African AIDS movement and activists
From the historical roots of AIDS activism in the struggle for African liberation to the everyday work of community education in Khayelitsha, Sustaining Life tells the story of how the rights-based South African AIDS movement successfully transformed public health institutions, enabled access to HIV/AIDS treatment, and sustained the lives of people living with the disease. Typical accounts of the South African epidemic have focused on the political conflict surrounding it, Theodore Powers observes, but have yet to examine the process by which the national HIV/AIDS treatment program achieved near-universal access.
In Sustaining Life, Powers demonstrates the ways in which non-state actors, from caregivers to activists, worked within the state to transform policy and state-based institutions in order to improve health-based outcomes. He shows how advocates in the South African AIDS movement channeled the everyday experiences of poor and working-class people living with HIV/AIDS into tangible policy changes at varying institutional levels, revealing the primacy of local action for expanding treatment access. In his analysis of the transformation of the state health system, Powers addresses three key questions: How were the activists of the movement able to overcome an AIDS-dissident faction that was backed by government power? How were state health institutions and HIV/AIDS policy transformed to increase public sector access to treatment? Finally, how should the South African campaign for treatment access inform academic debates on social movements, transnationalism, and the state?
Based on extended participant observation and in-depth interviews with members of the South African AIDS movement, Sustaining Life traces how the political principles of the anti-apartheid movement were leveraged to build a broad coalition that changed national HIV/AIDS policy norms and highlights how changes in state-society relations can be produced by local activism.