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Waiting to Happen: HIV/Aids in South Africa-the Bigger Picture Book

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  • Waiting to Happen: HIV/Aids in South Africa-the Bigger Picture
  • Written by author Liz Walker
  • Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., February 2004
  • Walker (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, South Africa) combines compelling color and b&w photos with the voices of scholars, health and advocacy practitioners, and victims of the AIDS epidemic to examine the social, cultural, and historica
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Forework7
Preface10
Introduction12
The fastest-growing epidemic in the world
Why does HIV/AIDS have Southern Africa by the throat?
Responses to the epidemic
1Sex and power in South Africa22
Being a man in South Africa
Being a woman in South Africa
Being a child in South Africa
2'An epidemic waiting to happen'60
Social disruption and social change
The health risks of mining and migrancy
Epidemics in historical perspective
Owning the epidemic--a history of moral panic and racial stereotyping
Reclaiming cultural traditions
AIDS--an apartheid illness?
The transition to democracy
3Cultural collisions: popular understandings of HIV/AIDS88
Popular explanations of HIV/AIDS
Understanding AIDS through the paradigm of witchcraft
Co-opting traditional healers in the fight against HIV/AIDS
4Confronting the epidemic106
The legal response
Responding through prevention and care
Intervention through treatment
What is to be done?
Endnotes133
Bibliography136
Index140
Image credits143


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