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HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa - Understanding the implications of culture & context (Paperback) Price: R232
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HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa - Understanding the implications of culture & context (Paperback)

Jean Baxen, Anders Breidlid

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Popular understanding of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is riddled with contradiction and speculation. This is revealed in HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, which explores the various contexts in which debate about HIV/AIDS takes place and examines how the pandemic is perceived by scholars, religious leaders and traditional healers, among others – in communities in and around South Africa.

Using a social theory lens, the book focuses on not only the cultural and contextual practices, but also the methodological and epistemological orientations around HIV/AIDS in education that shape community and individual interpretations of this disease.

The book avoids a simplistic approach to the pandemic, by exploring the complex and sometimes contradictory spaces in which HIV/AIDS discourses are negotiated, and thus goes some way to present a more hermeneutic profile of the HIV/AIDS problem.

HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa is as much about identity construction as it is about HIV/AIDS. The authors recognise the interrelatedness of sex, sexuality, identity and HIV/AIDS in the shaping of individual and collective identities and have thus gone beyond merely asking questions about what people know.

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Imprint: University of Cape Town Press
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: March 2009
First published: March 2010
Editors: Jean Baxen • Anders Breidlid
Dimensions: 245 x 170 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 978-1-919895-18-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > AIDS: social aspects
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LSN: 1-919895-18-3
Barcode: 9781919895185

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