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While there is a growing list of publications devoted to the AIDS epidemic, Africa, with two-thirds of the world's cases, still receives scant attention. This book may change the way we think about AIDS and how it is being addressed in Africa and the rest of the world. The book draws on first-hand research and in-depth investigations carried out by a team of researchers from Britain, Zambia and Tanzania, and focuses on the gendered aspect of the struggle against AIDS. The authors study the severity of the epidemic and the threat it poses to the population and society in Tanzania and Zambia. They argue that the success of strategies against the spread of AIDS in Africa rests on their recognition of existing gendered power relations and that this success might be enhanced if the strategies are built on existing organisational skills and practices, especially among women. Their conclusions have repercussions for all countries around the world, and especially the rest of Africa.
There are thousands of grandparents raising their grandchildren in
the United Kingdom, the majority as a consequence of parental drug
use or mental health issues. This book recounts the real-life
stories of grandparent carers who chose to put their own lives on
hold so that their loved ones can be properly cared for. Whilst
most grandparent carers remain as unsupported informal carers, some
seek to formalise their position by becoming Social Services
Kinship Carers or achieve legal routes to independent care as
Special Guardians or with a Child Arrangement Order. Whether formal
or informal, full-time grandparent carers face life-changing
futures. Immediate concerns are work, child care, the behaviour of
the child, contact with the birth parents and financial support,
and there is often no clear path to learning their rights and
available support. There is also the challenge involved in
balancing their bonds with their adult children while protecting
their grandchildren. In this book, grandparents talk in detail
about these issues and of how professionals and services have at
times helped and not helped. These candid stories also explore how
moving to live with grandparents can be experienced by both child
and carer as simultaneously a gain and a loss. The stories offer
support, and the book also includes professional advice to
encourage grandparents to acknowledge their value, accept their
limitations, develop realistic expectations about what they can and
cannot achieve, and recognise that all successes should be
celebrated.
While there is a growing list of publications devoted to the AIDS epidemic, Africa, with two-thirds of the world's cases, still receives scant attention. This book may change the way we think about AIDS and how it is being addressed in Africa and the rest of the world. The book draws on first-hand research and in-depth investigations carried out by a team of researchers from Britain, Zambia and Tanzania, and focuses on the gendered aspect of the struggle against AIDS. The authors study the severity of the epidemic and the threat it poses to the population and society in Tanzania and Zambia. They argue that the success of strategies against the spread of AIDS in Africa rests on their recognition of existing gendered power relations and that this success might be enhanced if the strategies are built on existing organisational skills and practices, especially among women. Their conclusions have repercussions for all countries around the world, and especially the rest of Africa. eBook available with sample pages: PB:1841420247 EB:0203495292
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