Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail - Couverture souple

Campbell, Catherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0852558686 ISBN 13 : 9780852558683

Editeur : James Currey, 2003

Synopsis

South Africa has the worst AIDS epidemic in the world...this book highlights the barriers and constraints to controlling the crisis. In the old South Africa we killed people. Now we're just letting them die' - Pieter Dirk Uys, satirist Why do peopleknowingly risk a slow and painful premature death? People explain in their own words. There are interviews with migrant mineworkers, commercial sex workers and young women and men. Why did this 'gold standard' prevention programme have so little impact?BR> Free condoms, treatment for sexually transmitted infections and education and awareness programmes were all provided. If any intervention was to have had a measurable impact, this should have been the one. The author's experience is drawn from a period of five years. She writes vividly - evenat times in a raw manner. What are the lessons within Africa and across the world? The author, who is a social psychologist, has drawn on anthropology, sociology and social medicine. Her study is an early evaluation of what is becoming the standard HIV/AIDS intervention throughout Africa. In association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana U Press; South Africa: Double Storey/Juta

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Catherine Campbell is a Reader at the London School of Economics, and an External Professor at the University of Natal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: James Currey
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0852558686
• ISBN 13: 9780852558683
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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