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Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa (California Series in Public Anthropology)

 
Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa (California Series in Public Anthropology)   Author: Robert Thornton
By University of California Press

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Product Description
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 authority into our understanding of AIDS transmission, Thornton's analysis also suggests new avenues for fighting the disease worldwide.

Product Details
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.5993920096761
EAN: 9780520255531
ISBN: 0520255534
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2008-09-02
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press