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All over the world, families and communities are key providers of
care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious
illnesses such as HIV and AIDS. Yet families and communities can
also stigmatise their members, leaving people to die in the most
appalling conditions. This book examines the diversity of family
and community responses to HIV and AIDS. By examining contexts such
as nuclear, extended and refugee family households, and gay
community networks and structures, it offers insight into the
factors which lead to positive responses and those which trigger
negative ones.
First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
All over the world, families and communities are key providers of
care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious
illnesses such as HIV and AIDS. Yet families and communities can
also stigmatize their members, leaving people to die in the most
appalling conditions. This book looks at the diversity of family
and community responses to HIV and AIDS. By examining contexts as
diverse as nuclear, extended and refugee family households, and gay
community networks and structures, it offers important insight into
the factors which lead to positive responses and those which
trigger negative ones.
From the start of the AIDS epidemic there have been calls for
greater solidarity between affected groups and communities, and
public health services. This can be seen both in the move towards
healthy alliances in health service work, and in the demands of
AIDS activists worldwide. This text brings together specially
selected papers addressing these and related themes given at the
Eighth Conference on Social Aspects of AIDS held in London in late
1995. Among the issues examined are profession and policy; the
heightened vulnerability of groups such as women and younger gay
men; and issues of drug use, disability and HIV prevention.
From the start of the AIDS epidemic there have been calls for
greater solidarity between affected groups and communities, and
public health services. This can be seen both in the move towards
healthy alliances in health service work, and in the demands of
AIDS activists worldwide. This text brings together specially
selected papers addressing these and related themes given at the
Eighth Conference on Social Aspects of AIDS held in London in late
1995. Among the issues examined are profession and policy; the
heightened vulnerability of groups such as women and younger gay
men; and issues of drug use, disability and HIV prevention.
Some 12 years into the epidemic, with an effective preventive
vaccine or therapy against HIV disease still to be found, this book
reflects on the contributions of social and behavioural research to
the development of interventions for prevention. After over a
decade's work documenting HIV and AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes
and behaviour, social researchers have begun to focus more clearly
on perceptions of sexual safety and risk, and the factors that
contribute to these. The issues addressed by the book were examined
during three major conferences in 1994: the annual conference of
the British Sociological Association, the 2nd International
Conference on the BioPsychoSocial Aspects of AIDS and the Xth
International Conference on AIDS. The book brings together key
papers presented at each of these conferences, documenting issues
of focal concern to social researchers, policy makers and health
educators in the mid-1990s.
Some 12 years into the epidemic, with an effective preventive
vaccine or therapy against HIV disease still to be found, this book
reflects on the contributions of social and behavioural research to
the development of interventions for prevention. After over a
decade's work documenting HIV and AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes
and behaviour, social researchers have begun to focus more clearly
on perceptions of sexual safety and risk, and the factors that
contribute to these. The issues addressed by the book were examined
during three major conferences in 1994: the annual conference of
the British Sociological Association, the 2nd International
Conference on the BioPsychoSocial Aspects of AIDS and the Xth
International Conference on AIDS. The book brings together key
papers presented at each of these conferences, documenting issues
of focal concern to social researchers, policy makers and health
educators in the mid-1990s.
HIV and AIDS have posed new challenges to societies, communities
and individuals. In many parts of the world, existing health and
social services have been hard pressed to cope with the dermands of
the epidemic. In hospitals and in the community, new approaches to
health education, support and care have been developed.
Non-governmental and community organizations have had a central
role to play in responding to the challenge of HIV and AIDS. "AIDS:
Foundations for the Future" highlights progress made over the last
decade, and offers an agenda for future activism and research. This
book examines the extent to which sound foundations for the future
have been laid in public, private and voluntary sector action. It
focuses on topics as diverse as workplace policy on HIV and AIDS,
voluntary sector responses, the reactions of health care workers,
the experience of living with AIDS, outreach work and community
action, patterns of male prostitution, and new interventions to
promote and maintain safer sex and safer drug use.
In February 1989, the 3rd conference on Social Aspects of AIDS took
place at South Bank Polytechnic. Social researchers working in
psychology, socio logy, anthropology and education were
represented, along with health care workers and members of
statutory and voluntary organisations. The confe rence's themes
emphasised the individual, cultural and policy dimen sions of HIV
disease, and under these broad headings a wide range of paper s
were given. This book contains many of the papers given at this
conference as well as a number of additional contributions. The
book is representative of a range of research currently under way.
Some of the chapters are empir ical in their emphasis, some are
more concerned with reporting on parti cular health education and
health policy interventions, and some begin to develop a critique
of some of the assumptions that operate in and aroun d contemporary
social research agendas.
First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
AIDS: Rights, Risk and Reason contains a mix of papers linking
research with the development of theoretical frameworks in a
readable and accessibole style. Issues examined include:
perceptions of risk and risk-taking behaviour; rights and
responsibilities; and the rationality that underpins individual and
collective responses to HIV/AIDS.
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