Changing the Course of AIDS: Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis - Couverture rigide

Dickinson, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 080144831X ISBN 13 : 9780801448317

Editeur : ILR Press, 2009

Synopsis

Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This case study from the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic demonstrates that regular workers serving as peer educators can be as--or even more--effective agents of behavioral change than experts who lecture about the facts and so-called appropriate health care behavior. After spending six years researching the response of large South African companies to the epidemic that is decimating their workforce as well as South African communities, David Dickinson describes the promise of this grassroots intervention--workers educating one another in the workplace and community--and the limitations of traditional top-down strategies.

Dickinson's book takes us right into the South African workplace to show how effective and yet enormously complex peer education really is. We see what it means when workers directly tackle the kinds of sexual, gender, religious, ethnic, and broader social and political taboos that make behavior change so difficult, particularly when that behavior involves sex and sexuality. Dickinson's findings show that people who are not officially health care experts or even health care workers can be skilled and effective educators. In this book we see why peer education has so much to offer societies grappling with the HIV/AIDS epidemic and why those interested in changing behaviors to ameliorate other health problems like obesity, alcoholism, and substance abuse have so much to learn from the South African example.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Dickinson researched Changing the Course of AIDS while Associate Professor of HIV/AIDS in the Workplace at the Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is currently Professor of Sociology at University of the Witwatersrand. Charles Deutsch is a senior research specialist at the Harvard School of Public Health and the author of Broken Bottles, Broken Dreams: Understanding and Helping Children of Alcoholics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ILR Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080144831X
• ISBN 13: 9780801448317
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible