Ebook: Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa
Author: Robert J. Thornton
- Genre: Other Social Sciences
- Tags: AIDS (Disease) -- Uganda -- Epidemiology, AIDS (Disease) -- South Africa -- Epidemiology, AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Uganda, AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- South Africa, South Africa -- Epidemiology, Uganda -- Epidemiology, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control, Anthropology Cultural -- methods, Health Policy, Sexual Behavior, Socioeconomic Factors, South Africa, Uganda, HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- AIDS & HIV, MEDICAL -
- Series: California Series in Public Anthropology
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- City: Berkeley
- Language: English
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This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that Read more...