Gender and HIV in South Africa - Advancing Women's Health and Capabilities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

This book addresses the ongoing problem of HIV in black South African women as a health inequity. Importantly, it argues that this urgent problem of justice is changeable. Sprague uses the capabilities approach to bring a theory of health justice, together with multiple sources of evidence, to investigate the complex problem of HIV and accompanying poor health outcomes in black South African women. Motivated by a concern for application of knowledge, this work discusses how to better conceptualise what health justice demands of state and society, and how to mobilise available evidence on health inequities in ways that compel greater state action to address problems of gender and health. HIV in women, and possible responses, are investigated on four distinct levels: conceptual, social structure, health systems, and law. The analysis demonstrates that this problem is indeed modifiable with long-term interventions and an enhanced state response targeted at multiple levels. This book will be of interest to academics and students in the social health sciences, gender and development studies, and global health, as well as HIV/health activists, government officials, policy makers, HIV clinicians and health providers interested in HIV.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Global Research in Gender, Sexuality and Health
Release date:	April 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Courtenay Sprague
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	404
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-55996-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > AIDS: social aspects Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General
LSN:	1-137-55996-9
Barcode:	9781137559968

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