Name: Aids in the Shadow of Biomedicine: Inside South Africa'S Epidemic (Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa) (en Inglés)
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Author: Isak Niehaus
ISBN: 9781786994745

portada Aids in the Shadow of Biomedicine: Inside South Africa'S Epidemic (Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Zed Books Ltd

Autor

Isak Niehaus

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

212

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781786994745

Categorías

Educación superior

Aids in the Shadow of Biomedicine: Inside South Africa'S Epidemic (Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa) (en Inglés)

Isak Niehaus (Autor) · Zed Books Ltd · Tapa Blanda

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The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early 1990s, the disease spread rapidly, and by 2008 life expectancies had fallen by 12 years for men and 14 years for women. Since 2005, public health facilities have increasingly offered free HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) treatment, offering a degree of hope, but uptake and adherence to the therapy has been sporadic and uneven.Drawing on his extensive ethnographic research, carried out in Bushbuckridge over the course of 25 years, Isak Niehaus reveals how the AIDS pandemic has been experienced at the village-level. Most significantly, he shows how local cultural practices and values have shaped responses to the epidemic. For example, while local attitudes towards death and misfortune have contributed to the stigma around AIDS, kinship structures have also facilitated the adoption and care of AIDS orphans. Such practices challenge us to rethink the role played by culture in understanding and treating sickness, with Niehaus showing how an appreciation of local beliefs and customs is essential to any effective strategy of AIDS treatment.Overturning many of our assumptions on disease prevention, the book is essential reading for practitioners as well as researchers in global health, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology and scholars interested in public health and administration in sub-Saharan Africa.