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Unimagined Community - Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa (Paperback)
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Unimagined Community - Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa (Paperback)
Series: California Series in Public Anthropology, 20
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This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach,
sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa
and in so doing, reframes current debates about the disease. Robert
J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in
Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest
fertility rates, while, during the same period, HIV prevalence rose
in South Africa, a country with Africa's lowest fertility rate.
Using anthropological, epidemiological, and mathematical methods,
Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined differences
in the structure of sexual networks - rather than changes in
individual behavior - were responsible for these radical
differences in HIV prevalence. His study exposes these invisible
networks, or unimagined communities, unseen both by those who
participate in them and by the social sciences, and opens a new
area of investigation - the sexual network as social structure.
Incorporating such factors as property, mobility, social status,
and political authority into our understanding of AIDS
transmission, Thornton offers a fresh vision of the disease, one
that suggests new avenues for fighting it worldwide.
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