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AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine - Inside South Africa's Epidemic (Hardcover)
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AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine - Inside South Africa's Epidemic (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
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Total price: R2,570
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The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest
rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the
area in the early 1990s, the disease spread rapidly, and by 2008
life expectancies had fallen by 12 years for men and 14 years for
women. Since 2005, public health facilities have increasingly
offered free HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy)
treatment, offering a degree of hope, but uptake and adherence to
the therapy has been sporadic and uneven. Drawing on his extensive
ethnographic research, carried out in Bushbuckridge over the course
of 25 years, Isak Niehaus reveals how the AIDS pandemic has been
experienced at the village-level. Most significantly, he shows how
local cultural practices and values have shaped responses to the
epidemic. For example, while local attitudes towards death and
misfortune have contributed to the stigma around AIDS, kinship
structures have also facilitated the adoption and care of AIDS
orphans. Such practices challenge us to rethink the role played by
culture in understanding and treating sickness, with Niehaus
showing how an appreciation of local beliefs and customs is
essential to any effective strategy of AIDS treatment. Overturning
many of our assumptions on disease prevention, the book is
essential reading for practitioners as well as researchers in
global health, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology and scholars
interested in public health and administration in sub-Saharan
Africa.
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