Hiv Aids Illness And African Well Being
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Hiv Aids Illness And African Well Being
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Author : Toyin Falola
language : en
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Release Date : 2007
Hiv Aids Illness And African Well Being written by Toyin Falola and has been published by University Rochester Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Collections categories.
A comprehensive view of health issues currently plaguing Africa, with an emphasis on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. HIV/AIDS, Illness and African Well-Being highlights the specific health problems facing Africa today, most particularly the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the book presents not only various healthcrises, but also the larger historical and contemporary contexts within which they must be understood and managed. Chapters offering analysis of specific illness case studies, and the effects of globalization and underdevelopmenton health, provide an overarching context in which HIV/AIDS and other health-related concerns can be understood. The contributions on the HIV/AIDS pandemic grapple with the complications of national and international policies, thesociological effects of the pandemic, and policy options for the future. HIV/AIDS, Illness and African Well-Being thus provides a comprehensive view of health issues currently plaguing the continent and the many differentways that scholars are interpreting the health outlook in Africa. Contributors: Obijiofor Aginam, Yacouba Banhoro, Richard Beilock, Charity Chenga, Mandi Chikombero, Kaley Creswell, Freek Cronjé, Frank N. F. Dadzie, Gabriel B. Fosu, Stephen Obeng-Manu Gyimah, Kathryn H. Jacobsen, W. Bediako Lamousé-Smith, William N. Mkanta, Gerald M. Mumma, Kalala Ngalamulume, Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Cecilia S. Obeng, Iruka N. Okeke, Akpen Philip, Baffour K. Takyi, Melissa K. Van Dyke, Sophie Wertheimer, Ellen A. S. Whitney Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas atAustin. Matthew M. Heaton is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin.
Preparing For The Future Of Hiv Aids In Africa
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Author : Institute of Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2011-03-28
Preparing For The Future Of Hiv Aids In Africa written by Institute of Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-28 with Medical categories.
HIV/AIDS is a catastrophe globally but nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, which in 2008 accounted for 67 percent of cases worldwide and 91 percent of new infections. The Institute of Medicine recommends that the United States and African nations move toward a strategy of shared responsibility such that these nations are empowered to take ownership of their HIV/AIDS problem and work to solve it.
Public Health Disease And Development In Africa
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Author : Ezekiel Kalipeni
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-06-14
Public Health Disease And Development In Africa written by Ezekiel Kalipeni and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-14 with Science categories.
The closure of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 prompted the need for a book of this kind. An interdisciplinary group of global health scholars contribute to the understanding of the emerging and fast-growing problem of the dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa. This book is timely, as the international community has moved from the MDGs to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the blueprint for a new human development agenda. Contributions and case studies are situated in the revised Epidemiologic and Nutrition Transition Model to capture the current situation, referencing communicable and NCDs on the African continent. The case studies encapsulated aim to help minimize negative health outcomes and improve population health, well-being, and equity in the future. This book will be significant in policy circles to assist international organizations, governments, and United Nations agencies. It aims to chart the future for health in Africa in light of recently adopted SDGs. This book is also a useful complementary reader for global public health related courses.
Solutions To The Problem Of Health Care Transmission Of Hiv Aids In Africa
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Solutions To The Problem Of Health Care Transmission Of Hiv Aids In Africa written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Health & Fitness categories.
Health Healing And Illness In African History
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Author : Rebekah Lee
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-02-11
Health Healing And Illness In African History written by Rebekah Lee and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-11 with History categories.
In this book, Rebekah Lee offers a critical introduction to the diverse history of health, healing and illness in sub-Saharan Africa from the 1800s to the present day. Its focus is not simply on disease but rather on how illness and health were understood and managed: by healthcare providers, African patients, their families and communities. Through a sustained interdisciplinary approach, Lee brings to the foreground a cast of actors, institutions and ideas that both profoundly and intimately shaped African health experiences and outcomes. This book guides the reader through a wide range of historical source material, and highlights the theoretical and methodological innovations which have enriched this scholarship. Part One delivers a concise historical overview of African health and illness from the long 'pre-colonial' past through the colonial period and into the present day, providing an understanding of broad patterns – of major disease challenges, experiences of illness, and local and global health interventions – and their persistence or transformation across time. Part Two adopts a 'case study' approach, focusing on specific health challenges in Africa – HIV/AIDS, mental illness, tropical disease and occupational disease – and their unfolding across time and space. Health, Healing and Illness in African History is the first wide-ranging survey of this key topic in African history and the history of health and medicine, and the ideal introduction for students.
Aids And Religious Practice In Africa
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Author : Felicitas Becker
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009
Aids And Religious Practice In Africa written by Felicitas Becker and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
This volume explores how AIDS is understood, confronted and lived with through religious ideas and practices, and how these, in turn, are reinterpreted and changed by the experience of AIDS. Examining the social production, and productivity, of AIDS - linking bodily and spiritual experiences, and religious, medical, political and economic discourses - the papers counter simplified notions of causal effects of AIDS on religion (or vice versa). Instead, they display peoplea (TM)s resourcefulness in their struggle to move ahead in spite of adversity. This relativises the vision of doom widely associated with the African AIDS epidemic; and it allows to see AIDS, instead of a singular event, as the culmination of a century-long process of changing livelihoods, bodily well-being and spiritual imaginaries.
States Of Disease
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Author : Brian King
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-01-24
States Of Disease written by Brian King and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-24 with Medical categories.
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "No One Dies of AIDS"--1. Social Ecology of Health -- 2. HIV Lifeways -- 3. Historical Spaces and Contemporary Epidemics -- 4. Landscapes of HIV -- 5. Health Ecologies within Dynamic Systems -- 6. States of Health -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Post Aids Discourse In Health Communication
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Author : Ambar Basu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-14
Post Aids Discourse In Health Communication written by Ambar Basu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with Social Science categories.
This book examines the discourse of a "post-AIDS" culture, and the medical-discursive shift from crisis and death to survival and living. Contributions from a diverse group of international scholars interrogate and engage with the cultural, social, political, scientific, historical, global, and local consumptions of the term "post-AIDS" from the perspective of meaning-making on health, illness, and well-being. The chapters critique and connect meanings of "post-AIDS" to topics such as neoliberalism; race, gender, and advocacy; disclosure; relationships and intimacy; stigma and structural violence; family and community; migration; work; survival; normativity; NGOs, transnational organizations; aging and end-of-life care; the politics of ART and PrEP; mental illness; campaigns; social media; and religion. Using a range of methodological tools, the scholarship herein asks how "post-AIDS" or the "End of the Epidemic" is communicated and made sense of in everyday discourse, what current meanings are circulated and consumed on and around HIV and AIDS, and provides thorough commentary and critique of a "post-AIDS" time. This book will be an essential read for scholars and students of health communication, sociology of health and illness, medical humanities, political science, and medical anthropology, as well as for policy makers and activists.
Medicine And Health In Africa
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Author : Paula Viterbo
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Medicine And Health In Africa written by Paula Viterbo and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Medical categories.
Over the last two decades, the implosion of economies under the burden of debt, the negative repercussions of structural adjustment programs, the crisis of legitimacy, civil wars, and the collapse of some states have resulted in serious health issues across the African continent. Newly emerging diseases, such as Ebola virus and HIV/AIDS have killed and disabled millions. Some “old diseases,” such as yellow fever, tuberculosis, and polio have reappeared. Malaria, cholera, and meningitis continue to kill thousands. In many countries, the medical infrastructure has collapsed, while an increasing number of physicians and nurses have migrated to more hospitable places. Stigmatization of the affected people has exacerbated social and racial discrimination and has affected the implementation of national and international public health programs. The complexity of the situation requires an interdisciplinary approach. This collection, including contributions by historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and biologists, emphasizes the social and cultural contexts of African health, paying particular attention to the history of the colonial public health system and its legacy.
Policy Workshop On Hiv Aids And Family Well Being
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Policy Workshop On Hiv Aids And Family Well Being written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.