Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail
by Catherine Campbell
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In the old South Africa we killed people. Now we're just letting them die." --Pieter Dirk Uys, South African satirist Today in South Africa, HIV/AIDS kills about 5 in 10 young people. Many of the victims are miners and commercial sex workers who ply their trade in mining communities. In this critique of government-sponsored and privately funded HIV/AIDS prevention programs in South Africa, Catherine Campbell exposes why it has been so difficult to stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Campbell's show more research focuses on local vectors of the disease such as what people believe about the spread and prevention of AIDS, what measures they take to prevent disease, and whether they are likely to seek treatment at local AIDS clinics. "Letting Them Die" is not just an investigation into sexuality, social relations, health, and medicine; it is also a sharp review of the kinds of programs that are becoming the standard method of HIV/AIDS intervention throughout Africa. show lessTags
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- Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail
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- AIDS epidemic
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction
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- 362.196979200968 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare People with physical illnesses Services to people with specific conditions Diseases Other diseases Diseases of immune system Immune deficiency diseases AIDS History, geographic treatment, biography
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- RA643.86 .S6 .C348 — Medicine Public aspects of medicine Public aspects of medicine Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine Disease (Communicable and noninfectious) and public
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