Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Getnet Tadele, Helmut Kloos (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

274 Seiten

2013 | 1st ed. 2013
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-43620-0 (ISBN)

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This book examines HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities, impacts and responses in the socioeconomic and cultural context of Sub-Saharan Africa. With contributions from social scientists and public health experts, the volume identifies gender inequality and poverty as the main causes of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

Woldekidan Amde, University of Western Cape, South Africa Tekalign Ayalew, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Sebsib Belay, Indira Gandhi National Open University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ayalew Gebre, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Damen Haile Mariam, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Charles Hongoro, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa Anne Khasakhala, University of Nairobi, Kenya Helmut Kloos, University of California, USA Getnet Tadele, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Damtew Yirgu, Ministry of Agriculture in Arsi Region, Ethiopia

Introduction; Getnet Tadele PART I 1. Contextualizing HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Link with Tradition, Religion, and Culture; Getnet Tadele and Woldekidan Amde 2. Gender Inequalities, Power Relations and HIV/AIDS: Exploring the Interface; Ayalew Gebre, Tekalign Ayalew and Helmut Kloos 3. Youth Sexuality and HIV/AIDS: Issues and Contentions; Woldekidan Amde and Getnet Tadele 4. Food Insecurity, Poverty, and HIV/AIDS; Ayalew Gebre, Sebsib Belay and Helmut Kloos PART II: IMPACTS AND RESPONSES TO HIV/AIDS 5. Socioeconomic and Psychosocial Impacts of HIV/AIDS and Responses at Different Levels of Society; Ayalew Gebre, Damtew Yirgu and Helmut Kloos 6. HIV/AIDS and the Mining and Commercial Agricultural Sectors in Southern Africa; Charles Hongoro, Getnet Tadele and Helmut Kloos 7. Access to Treatment, Care, Support, and Prevention Services; Getnet Tadele, Woldekidan Amde and Helmut Kloos 8. Care and Support for AIDS Orphans; Woldekidan Amde and Getnet Tadele 9. Mainstreaming HIV Interventions into Educational Systems; Anne A. Khasakhala 10. Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs; Anne A. Khasakhala and Helmut Kloos 11. Ethical Issues in HIV/AIDS Biomedical Research; Anne A. Khasakhala and Helmut Kloos Conclusion and the Way Forward; Damen Haile Mariam and Helmut Kloos

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 274 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	AIDS • Care • educational system • Evaluation • Gender • Poverty • Religion • Service
ISBN-10	1-349-43620-8 / 1349436208
ISBN-13	978-1-349-43620-0 / 9781349436200
Zustand	Neuware