The Normalization Of The Hiv And Aids Epidemic In South Africa

Author : Katinka de Wet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429513961

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The Normalization of the HIV and AIDS Epidemic in South Africa by Katinka de Wet Pdf

This book explores the normalization of HIV and AIDS, reflecting upon the intended and unintended consequences of the multifarious "AIDS industry." The Normalization of the HIV and AIDS Epidemic in South Africa deals with the manner in which the HIV and AIDS epidemic has become such a well-known disease with such wide-ranging ramifications. With its focus on the "AIDS industry," this book examines issues such as the framing of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in a manner that greatly fostered notions of stigmatization and moralization. This book looks at the complexities of dealing with the epidemic in contemporary South Africa, examining the difficulties of addressing the social aspects of a disease in the context of increased focus on technological quick-fix solutions. De Wet explores these issues thoroughly, looking at the social determinants of the spread of the disease as well as the configuration and the nature of the responses to it, and their increasing marginalization as factors to address in an era of increased biomedicalization and concomitant normalization. This book will intrigue scholars and students of public health, global health care, medical sociology, and African Studies.

Author : Jonathan Stadler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030694380

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Public Secrets and Private Sufferings in the South African AIDS Epidemic by Jonathan Stadler Pdf

This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has not normalised. Despite considerable efforts to prevent infection, and ambitious targets set to end the epidemic by 2030, HIV infections are increasing among young women and treatment uptake and adherence have been uneven. Focusing on the years preceding and following treatment access, this book addresses why an end to AIDS may be misplaced optimism. By examining public discourses and private narratives about infection, illness and death, this work reveals the contradictions between the lived experiences of AIDS suffering on the one hand, and biomedical certainties on the other. Based on long-term ethnographic research in rural villages of the South African lowveld, and within HIV prevention interventions in South Africa more generally, this book offers an intimate perspective on the social and cultural responses to the epidemic.

Author : Liz Walker,Graeme Reid,Morna Cornell
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1919930396

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Waiting to Happen by Liz Walker,Graeme Reid,Morna Cornell Pdf

Why are more women than men in South Africa HIV positive? What explains the exponential growth of AIDS in the country? How is HIV/AIDS understood in various cultural belief systems? What can be done about the epidemic? This powerful book -- incorporating evocative photographs and the voices of scholars, practitioners, and victims of the epidemic -- looks at the social, cultural, and historical aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. -- Back cover.

Author : Pieter Fourie,Melissa Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317020554

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The Politics of AIDS Denialism by Pieter Fourie,Melissa Meyer Pdf

Successive South African governments have had controversial views on HIV and AIDS which have led to allegations that South Africa is in a state of denial about the AIDS epidemic. This book attempts to determine the validity of such claims of government denial by formulating and testing a denial hypothesis.The hypothesis is contextualized with an overview of the South African epidemic as well as a review of allegations of government denial. It reveals possible political factors that may motivate policy-makers to resort to official denial and tentatively concludes with a confirmation of the allegations contained in the denial hypothesis. However, this is done within the broader notion that denial is inherently vague and couched in language (rarely in writing) and therefore difficult to test with certainty and as such this book's real value lies in the insights gained into the complex politics of denial. By exploring the dynamics of denial and denialism and applying this to the South African AIDS epidemic, this study provides a comprehensive analysis.

Author : Angela Ndinga-Muvumba,Robyn Pharoah
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015079356690

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HIV/AIDS and Society in South Africa by Angela Ndinga-Muvumba,Robyn Pharoah Pdf

Do we know how HIV/AIDS may affect different sectors of society, possibly altering the course set for development? This book presents a multidisciplinary overview of the discourse on HIV/AIDS and explores the concept of human security and the global development agenda.

Author : Didier Fassin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520940451

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When Bodies Remember by Didier Fassin Pdf

In this book, France's leading medical anthropologist takes on one of the most tragic stories of the global AIDS crisis—the failure of the ANC government to stem the tide of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Didier Fassin traces the deep roots of the AIDS crisis to apartheid and, before that, to the colonial period. One person in ten is infected with HIV in South Africa, and President Thabo Mbeki has initiated a global controversy by funding questionable medical research, casting doubt on the benefits of preventing mother-to-child transmission, and embracing dissidents who challenge the viral theory of AIDS. Fassin contextualizes Mbeki's position by sensitively exploring issues of race and genocide that surround this controversy. Basing his discussion on vivid ethnographical data collected in the townships of Johannesburg, he passionately demonstrates that the unprecedented epidemiological crisis in South Africa is a demographic catastrophe as well as a human tragedy, one that cannot be understood without reference to the social history of the country, in particular to institutionalized racial inequality as the fundamental principle of government during the past century.

Author : Isak Niehaus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786994752

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AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine by Isak Niehaus Pdf

The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early 1990s, the disease spread rapidly, and by 2008 life expectancies had fallen by 12 years for men and 14 years for women. Since 2005, public health facilities have increasingly offered free HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) treatment, offering a degree of hope, but uptake and adherence to the therapy has been sporadic and uneven. Drawing on his extensive ethnographic research, carried out in Bushbuckridge over the course of 25 years, Isak Niehaus reveals how the AIDS pandemic has been experienced at the village-level. Most significantly, he shows how local cultural practices and values have shaped responses to the epidemic. For example, while local attitudes towards death and misfortune have contributed to the stigma around AIDS, kinship structures have also facilitated the adoption and care of AIDS orphans. Such practices challenge us to rethink the role played by culture in understanding and treating sickness, with Niehaus showing how an appreciation of local beliefs and customs is essential to any effective strategy of AIDS treatment. Overturning many of our assumptions on disease prevention, the book is essential reading for practitioners as well as researchers in global health, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology and scholars interested in public health and administration in sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : P. Fourie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230627222

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The Political Management of HIV and AIDS in South Africa by P. Fourie Pdf

This book analyzes successive governments' management of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. The book covers the years 1982-2005, using expert thinking regarding public policy making to identify gaps in the public sector's handling of the epidemic. It highlights critical lessons for policy makers and other public health managers.

Author : Ngcaweni, Busani
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780798304993

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Sizonqoba! Outliving AIDS in Southern Africa by Ngcaweni, Busani Pdf

The aim of this book is to better understand the phenomenon of HIV in a country that has faced the fullest might of the disease and yet, after first faltering, has made more progress than any other country in the world in its response to HIV. It aims to reflect the complexity of this narrative and the range of widely differing insights by featuring what is likely the largest number of contributors in a single publication on the subject in South Africa, as well as a full spectrum of specialised areas, ranging from high-end science to personal reflections.

Author : S. S. Abdool Karim,Q. Abdool Karim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1139487930

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HIV/AIDS in South Africa by S. S. Abdool Karim,Q. Abdool Karim Pdf

This second edition of the book provides up-to-date information on new drugs, new proven HIV prevention interventions, a new chapter on positive prevention, and current HIV epidemiology. This definitive text covers all aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, from basic science to medicine, sociology, economics and politics. It has been written by a highly respected team of South African HIV/AIDS experts and provides a thoroughly researched account of the epidemic in the region.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120731158

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Aids in South Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michel Caraël,Judith Glynn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781402061738

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HIV, Resurgent Infections and Population Change in Africa by Michel Caraël,Judith Glynn Pdf

Forty years ago, the age-old battle against infectious diseases as a major threat to human health was believed close to being won. However, by the late twentieth century, the increase of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases was evident in both low and high income countries. About 30 new infectious diseases have been identified in the last 20 years. Among the "new" diseases, and most importantly, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic, with 40 million persons infected and 25 million deaths since its first description, presents one of the most significant health, societal and security challenges facing the global community. The interaction of HIV/AIDS with tuberculosis, malaria and bacterial infections have increased HIV-related morbidity and mortality, and in turn, the HIV pandemic has brought about devastating increases in tuberculosis. Understanding the population impact and the dynamics of infection diseases in the most affected region is critical to efforts to reduce the morbidity and mortality of such infections, and for decisions on where to use limited resources in the fight against infections. This book aims to contribute to these efforts by offering a demographic and epidemiological perspective on emerging and reemerging infections in sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Sholto Cross,Alan Whiteside
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781349225972

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Facing Up to AIDS by Sholto Cross,Alan Whiteside Pdf

This study looks at the global plague which is threatening to engulf South Africa at a crucial moment in its history. Economists, demographers and health planners present a range of new methods of understanding the likely course of the disease, drawn from the most recent research.

Author : Annamarie Bindenagel Šehović
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317121503

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HIV/AIDS and the South African State by Annamarie Bindenagel Šehović Pdf

For three decades post-apartheid, the HIV/AIDS epidemic from first acknowledgement to its management as a chronic disease, demanded unparalleled attention. This was nowhere more evident than in South Africa. This book explores how the state responded to its responsibilities to defend and protect (human) security. Linking this to the role of the state as sovereign protector and provider of security, it applies the findings to the broader re-interpretation of sovereign responsibility in the 21st Century. This book does not seek to absolve the South African state of its responsibility to respond. Moreover, it argues that although the state, the government, before, during, and after the transition to democracy, was aware of and acknowledged the threat - political, economic and social - posed by the epidemic, it nonetheless chose not to make the epidemic a priority policy issue. As a result, it argues that the South African HIV/AIDS case illustrates the tension inherent between a state’s ultimate sovereign responsibility to respond and its tactical dependence on external contributors to meet the demands of all of its constituents.

Author : B. B. Haldenwang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082644738

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AIDS in South Africa by B. B. Haldenwang Pdf