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