Unimagined Community Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa - California Series in Public Anthropology
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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 networksrather than changes in individual behaviorwere 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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520255524 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 02 Sep 2008 |
DEWEY: | 614.5993920096761 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 282 |
Weight: | 542g |
Height: | 235mm |
Width: | 156mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |