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100 1 $aNiehaus, Isak A.$q(Isak Arnold),$eauthor.
245 10 $aAIDS in the shadow of biomedicine:$binside South Africa's epidemic /$cIsak Niehaus.
264 1 $aLondon :$bZed Books Ltd,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axviii, 193 pages ;$c22 cm.
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490 1 $aPolitics and development in contemporary Africa
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [171]-186) and index.
520 8 $aThe 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 modicum 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 the Universalist 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 the sub-Saharan region.
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650 22 $aRural Population.$0(DNLM)D012424
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650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.$2bisacsh
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