Getnet Tadele, Helmut Kloos

Gebundenes Buch

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

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-00994-4
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781137009944
• ISBN-10: 1137009942
• Artikelnr.: 37270916

Rezensionen

'This book provides a wealth of fine grained detail about the unfolding HIV/AIDS epidemic and the expanding interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa, and particularly in eastern and southern Africa. Most HIV prevention programmes in Africa have failed because biomedically orientated actors have failed to adequately address the social, cultural, economic and political context of HIV/AIDS and human sexuality, disease impacts and interventions. This book goes some way to addressing that gap and provides new and relevant information for health planners, administrators, students and researchers, thus representing a major achievement by the ten authors and two editors.' - Anne Scott, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

'This book can inform undergraduate and graduate students of public health, and epidemiology, clinical medicine, African studies, medical anthropology and medical sociology, as well as health planners, health administrators, and NGO staff. Thus it may contribute to accelerating the current decline in HIV incidence and AIDS mortality and promote adequate and sustainable care for the still growing number of patients, orphans, and other affected people.' - Ahmed Ali, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia