HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : understanding the implications of culture & context

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    • Baxen, Jean
    • Breidlid, Anders

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HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : understanding the implications of culture & context

editors, Jean Baxen & Anders Breidlid

United Nations University Press, c2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-133) and index

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Popular understanding of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is riddled with contradiction and speculation. This is revealed in the present publication, which explores the various contexts in which debate about HIV/AIDS takes place and examines how the pandemic is perceived by scholars, religious leaders and traditional healers, among others - in communities in and around South Africa. Using a social theory lens, the book focuses on not only the cultural and contextual practices, but also the methodological and epistemological orientations around HIV/AIDS in education that shape community and individual interpretations of this disease.

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