HIV and AIDS in Africa Beyond Epidemiology

by Kalipeni, Ezekiel; Craddock, Susan; Oppong, Joseph R.; Ghosh, Jayati

• ISBN13: 9780631223573
• ISBN10: 0631223576
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This work seeks to further our understanding of AIDS, using contributions from international experts from across the social sciences.

Author Biography

Ezekiel Kalipeni is Associate Professor of Geography and African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Susan Craddock is Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Department and in the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Joseph R. Oppong is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Northern Texas.

Jayati Ghosh is Associate Professor of International Business and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Dominican University of California.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	viii
Acknowledgments	xvi
Introduction	1	(1)
Beyond Epidemiology: Locating AIDS in Africa	1	(10)
Susan Craddock
Part I History	11	(32)
Introduction to Part 1	13	(2)
AIDS, History, and Struggles over Meaning	15	(14)
Brooke Grundfest Schoepf
Politics, Culture, and Medicine: An Unholy Trinity? Historical Continuities and Ruptures in the HIV/AIDS Story in Malawi	29	(14)
John Lloyd Lwanda
Part II AIDS in Africa: Regional Perspectives	43	(40)
Introduction to Part II	45	(2)
Perceptions and Misperceptions of AIDS in Africa	47	(11)
Joseph R. Oppong
Ezekiel Kalipeni
Mapping the AIDS Pandemic in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Critical Overview	58	(12)
Ezekiel Kalipeni
Susan Craddock
Jayati Ghosh
HIV/AIDS in West Africa: The Case of Senegal, Ghana, and Nigeria	70	(13)
Joseph R. Oppong
Samuel Agyei-Mensah
Part III Beyond Epidemiology: Understanding the Issues in Social Terms	83	(6)
Introduction to Part III	85	(4)
A Gendered Vulnerabilities	89	(124)
Coercion, Constraints, and ``Cultural Entrapments'': A Further Look at Gendered and Occupational Factors Pertinent to the Transmission of HIV in Africa	89	(15)
Anne V. Akeroyd
Strategies for Prevention of Sexual Transmission of HIV/AIDS Among Adolescents: The Case of High School Students in Kenya	104	(17)
Njeri Mbugua
AIDS in Africa: Structure, Agency, and Risk	121	(12)
Brooke Grundfest Schoepf
B Sexualities
Culture, Sexuality, and Women's Agency in the Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa	133	(11)
Ida Susser
Zena Stein
Migrancy, Masculine Identities, and AIDS: The Psychosocial Context of HIV Transmission on the South African Gold Mines	144	(11)
Catherine Campbell
The Invisible Presence of Homosexuality: Implications for HIV/AIDS and Rights in Southern Africa	155	(12)
Oliver Phillips
C Poverty, Migration, War
Urbanization, Poverty, and Sex: Roots of Risky Sexual Behaviors in Slum Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya	167	(8)
Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu
F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo
Alex Chika Ezeh
Mobile Populations and HIV/AIDS in East Africa	175	(16)
Maryinez Lyons
Understanding the African HIV Pandemic: An Appraisal of the Contexts and Lay Explanation of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic with Examples From Tanzania and Kenya	191	(13)
Gabriel Rugalema
Socioeconomic Obstracles to HIV Prevention and Treatment in Developing Countries: The Roles of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank	204	(9)
Peter Lurie
Percy C. Hintzen
Robert A. Lowe
Part IV Research Methods, Agendas, and Ethics	213	(40)
Introduction to Part IV	215	(2)
Participatory Diagraming and the Ethical and Practical Challenges of Helping Africans Themselves to Move HIV Work ``Beyond Epidemiology''	217	(12)
Mike Kesby
Community-Based Research on AIDS in the Context of Global Inequalities - Making a Virtue of Necessity?	229	(11)
Carolyn Baylies
AIDS and Ethics: Clinical Trials, Pharmaceuticals, and Global Scientific Practice	240	(13)
Susan Craddock
Part V Understanding the Repercussions/Impacts	253	(74)
Introduction to Part V	255	(4)
Excerpt from We Miss You All: AIDS in the Family	259	(20)
Noerine Kaleeba
Understanding AIDS in Public Lives	279	(12)
David Eaton
Economic Growth Rates in Africa: The Potential Impact of HIV/AIDS	291	(13)
Lynn R. Brown
Rising Tide of AIDS Orphans in Southern Africa	304	(12)
Jayati Ghosh
Ezekiel Kalipeni
Excerpt from Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis: A Mother to her Brothers: A Child-headed Household's Story, Johannesburg, South Africa	316	(7)
Emma Guest
Concluding Remarks: Beyond Epidemiology	323	(4)
Joseph R. Oppong
Jayati Ghosh
Bibliography	327	(48)
Index	375