Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thornton, Robert J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
Series:	California series in public anthropology ; 20.
Subjects:	AIDS (Disease) > Uganda > Epidemiology. AIDS (Disease) > South Africa > Epidemiology. AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > Uganda. AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > South Africa. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology > South Africa. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology > Uganda. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention & control > South Africa. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention & control > Uganda. Anthropology, Cultural > methods > South Africa. Anthropology, Cultural > methods > Uganda. Health Policy > South Africa. Health Policy > Uganda. Sexual Behavior > South Africa. Sexual Behavior > Uganda. Socioeconomic Factors > South Africa. Socioeconomic Factors > Uganda.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: meaning and structure in the study of AIDS
Comparing Uganda and South Africa: sexual networks, family structure, and property
The social determinants of sexual network configuration
The tightening chain: civil society and Uganda's response to HIV/AIDS
AIDS in Uganda: years of chaos and recovery
Siliimu as native category: AIDS as local knowledge in Uganda
Uganda"s indigenization of AIDS: governance and the political response in Uganda
South Africa's struggle: the omission and commission of truth about AIDS
Imagining AIDS: South Africa's viral politics
Flows of sexual substance: the sexual network in South Africa
Preventing AIDS: a new paradigm for a new strategy.