Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: An International Perspective - Hardcover

Long, Lynellyn D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231106041 ISBN 13: 9780231106047

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1997

Synopsis

HIV/AIDS affects women worldwide. Yet intervention programmes often fail to take into account the different cultures and behaviours that make women more vulnerable than men. Although policy debates increasingly include women and gender considerations, funds and resources for women, especially those already suffering with HIV/AIDS, remain inadequate. "Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS" recounts the experiences of individual women whose daily struggles and concerns are ignored in the larger dialogues about HIV/AIDS. Women and men from diverse backgrounds discuss the differences between women within and across cultures and how particular traditions and attitudes can determine a woman's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. This collection provides a much-needed examination of the interventions and policies that do not yet fully address the needs and limitations of women suffering with infection, or confronted by that possibility.

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Review:

Provides a decidedly feminist perspective on the issue of HIV / AIDS. The editors have gathered an eclectic group of contributors, balanced along the lines of gender and discipline. All chapters are well-written, provocative, and challenging. . . . Two major perspectives are represented by the book as a whole: health care professional and personal lived-experienced. . . . Throughout, gender inequities about this unique disease and its management are addressed in powerful ways.

"Startling and powerful accounts of the impact of HIV/AIDS on women's lives... highly recommended." -- Emily van der Meulen, "Archives of Sexual Behavior"

Startling and powerful accounts of the impact of HIV/AIDS on women's lives... highly recommended.--Emily van der Meulen"Archives of Sexual Behavior" (01/01/0001)

Startling and powerful accounts of the impact of HIV/AIDS on women's lives... highly recommended.

--Emily van der Meulen"Archives of Sexual Behavior" (01/01/0001)

Startling and powerful accounts of the impact of HIV/AIDS on women's lives... highly recommended.--Emily van der Meulen "Archives of Sexual Behavior "

About the Author:

LYNELLYN D. LONG is the Population Council's Representative in Vietnam and an adjunct faculty member of The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. E. MAXINE ANKRAH is the associate director for the AIDSCAP Women's Initiative of Family Health International (FHI)

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0231106041
• ISBN 13: 9780231106047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 438