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HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology

HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology

by Ezekiel Kalipeni (Editor), Jayati Ghosh (Editor), Susan Craddock (Editor), Joseph R. Oppong (Editor)

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Synopsis

HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology is a collection that seeks to further our understanding of AIDS by shifting the predominant understandings generated by biomedical and epidemiological research. It brings together international contributors - including often overlooked African scholars and activists - from across the social sciences to examine HIV and AIDS from angles previously unexplored. By presenting on-the-ground evidence and ethnographic cases, emphasizes that HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa is a complex and regionally specific phenomenon rooted in local economies, deepening poverty, migration, gender, war, global economies, and cultural politics. It recognizes that AIDS in Africa cannot be stemmed until social, gender, and economic inequities are addressed in meaningful ways.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 416
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 02 Oct 2003
ISBN 10: 0631223576
ISBN 13: 9780631223573

Media Reviews
This groundbreaking volume draws on a broad array of methodologies and disciplines to bring into relief the social and economic forces that have made AIDS the leading infectious cause of young adult death globally. Rejecting fashionable explanations of AIDS in Africa, this book reveals such explanations to be rooted in racism, victim-blaming, disciplinary blindness, and shoddy research. Meticulously documented, HIV and AIDS in Africa is a treasure trove of information - just what many policymakers, epidemiologists, and clinicians need to hear, whether we want to or not. But the book deserves a far wider audience. For 'any interventions that fail to address the broader issues of African social and economic life,' as one of this fine volume's contributors predicts, 'are bound to fail. Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School This is a thoroughly excellent book, as good as any on offer on the current HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, and a lot better than most ... This is a book that needs to be read by all those involved in development planning in Africa - and elsewhere - in NGOs as in governments, in the field as well as in the 'corridors of power'. International Development Planning Review The new book by Ezekiel Kalipeni et al. is a landmark among all existing literature addressing the epidemic in Africa. The volume holds near 25 in-depth chapters providing brilliant analysis of the epidemic. Markku Loytonen, University of Helsinki The book is able to cover a vast array of topics that have been previously neglected in academic discourse ... the editors have successfully demonstrated thta HIV/AIDS must be approached in a multidisciplinary fashion in order to understand and eventually stem the spread of this epidemic ... what is refreshing in regard to this work is that the editors have taken an academic and personal approach in their attempts to grasp the influence of this epidemic ... this book can be called both humanistic and sincere. Cambridge University Press This book is essential reading, as it tackles the critical arguments...it represents a call to all researchers working with HIV/AIDS to take account...first book that tackles the misperceptions...the collection represents a major contribution. Sahara Journal
Author Bio
Ezekiel Kalipeni is Associate Professor of Geography and African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Susan Craddock is Associate Professor in the Women's Studies Department and in the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. Joseph R. Oppong is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Northern Texas. Jayati Ghosh is Associate Professor of International Business and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Dominican University of California.