Letting Them Die - Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail (Paperback, New Ed.)

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

General

Imprint:	James Currey
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	African Issues
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Catherine Campbell
Dimensions:	216 x 134 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	214
Edition:	New Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-85255-868-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > AIDS: social aspects
LSN:	0-85255-868-6
Barcode:	9780852558683

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