Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Often Fail (African Issues) - Softcover

Campbell, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0852558686 ISBN 13: 9780852558683

Publisher: James Currey, 2003

Synopsis

South Africa has the worst AIDS epidemic in the world...this book highlights the barriers and constraints to controlling the crisis. In the old South Africa we killed people. Now we're just letting them die' - Pieter Dirk Uys, satirist Why do peopleknowingly risk a slow and painful premature death? People explain in their own words. There are interviews with migrant mineworkers, commercial sex workers and young women and men. Why did this 'gold standard' prevention programme have so little impact?BR> Free condoms, treatment for sexually transmitted infections and education and awareness programmes were all provided. If any intervention was to have had a measurable impact, this should have been the one. The author's experience is drawn from a period of five years. She writes vividly - evenat times in a raw manner. What are the lessons within Africa and across the world? The author, who is a social psychologist, has drawn on anthropology, sociology and social medicine. Her study is an early evaluation of what is becoming the standard HIV/AIDS intervention throughout Africa. In association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana U Press; South Africa: Double Storey/Juta

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About the Author

Catherine Campbell is a Reader at the London School of Economics, and an External Professor at the University of Natal.

Edition details

• Publisher: James Currey
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0852558686
• ISBN 13: 9780852558683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224