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Hiv Exceptionalism
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Author : Adia Benton
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2015-02-15
Hiv Exceptionalism written by Adia Benton and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-15 with Social Science categories.
WINNER, 2017 RACHEL CARSON PRIZE, SOCIETY FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a decadelong civil war. Seeking international attention and development aid, its government faced a dilemma. Though devastated by conflict, Sierra Leone had a low prevalence of HIV. However, like most African countries, it stood to benefit from a large influx of foreign funds specifically targeted at HIV/AIDS prevention and care. What Adia Benton chronicles in this ethnographically rich and often moving book is how one war-ravaged nation reoriented itself as a country suffering from HIV at the expense of other, more pressing health concerns. During her fieldwork in the capital, Freetown, a city of one million people, at least thirty NGOs administered internationally funded programs that included HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Benton probes why HIV exceptionalism—the idea that HIV is an exceptional disease requiring an exceptional response—continues to guide approaches to the epidemic worldwide and especially in Africa, even in low-prevalence settings. In the fourth decade since the emergence of HIV/AIDS, many today are questioning whether the effort and money spent on this health crisis has in fact helped or exacerbated the problem. HIV Exceptionalism does this and more, asking, what are the unanticipated consequences that HIV/AIDS development programs engender?
The Case For Hiv Aids Exceptionalism In Public Health Policies Based On A Comparison Of Two Stigmatized Epidemics
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Author : Lynn M. Ross-Hermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Case For Hiv Aids Exceptionalism In Public Health Policies Based On A Comparison Of Two Stigmatized Epidemics written by Lynn M. Ross-Hermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with AIDS (Disease) categories.
Clinical Progress And The Future Of Hiv Exceptionalism
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Author : Ronald Bayer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Clinical Progress And The Future Of Hiv Exceptionalism written by Ronald Bayer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
In the 18 years since the first cases of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the epidemic has undergone profound transformations, and so, too, has the sociomedical context within which public health policy is fashioned and implemented. The early years of neglect and panic were also characterized by relative therapeutic impotence and deep uncertainty about the epidemiological course the new threat would take. In the United States and in other economically advanced nations, the threat of contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has abated. The incidence of infection has declined, and the prevalence of infection has stabilized and, in some instances, begun to fall. The pattern of HIV spread, where it has continued, has been dramatically circumscribed to marginalized populations.1 The panic of the mid-1980s has passed, and in many nations, AIDS has lost its salience as a public issue. A sense of therapeutic impotence no longer prevails, and a new mood of triumphalism has taken hold. How have these crucial changes affected AIDS policies in America? (Introduction).
Public Health Aids Exceptionalism And The Law
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Author : Scott Burris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Public Health Aids Exceptionalism And The Law written by Scott Burris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
It has become a commonplace to claim that HIV has been treated "differently" than other disease by health policy makers. This claim - the "exceptionalism thesis" - is, I argue here, fundamentally ahistorical, overlooking that virtually all major public health threats have inspired political disputes at one time or another. It is not necessary to rehearse the many ways in which the general social response to HIV has been very much like that accorded the killer diseases of the past. Even the sympathetic recognition that HIV is uniquely stigmatizing is only true relative to other present health threats; in their prime, cholera, tuberculosis, and syphilis were all badges of vice and dissipation. The passions that disease can inspire are what make public health as much a political art as a bio-medical science. HIV fits well into a tradition of vigorous policy dispute and social tension. It is also interesting to consider how HIV relates to other health threats. HIV, as a virus, has properties that make it different from other disease-causing microbes. The particular pattern of its spread depends upon contemporary social conditions that are different from conditions of the past. HIV was revealed suddenly, as an epidemic, and epidemic diseases have generally been seen as alarmingly different from more ubiquitous killers societies have learned to bear. The drama and biological peculiarity of HIV should not, however, obscure its similarity to other leading killers, like cancer, heart disease, and accidents. All of these ways of dying can be attributed to behavior, to our culture, and to its values as they are expressed in socially constructed options and individual choices. All of the ways of dying challenge public health to develop effective, long-term social learning strategies to change dangerous behavior, and in so doing all of them pose questions about the government's role in manipulating the lives of the people. One might justly question whether it is even accurate to assert that "traditional" health measures have not been applied to HIV. As Bayer himself noted in a later article, during the HIV epidemic, twenty-five states passed revised health laws authorizing coercive action against HIV-infected people engaging in dangerous behavior, and nineteen states passed HIV-specific criminal law. AIDS is a reportable disease throughout the country, and HIV is reportable in some way in half the states. Public health agencies in many cities have used their summary powers to close or modify bathhouses and other sites of free sexual activity. Legislation mandating screening of various sorts of people, like prostitutes and prisoners, has been common. Even if we suppose that a doctrine of exceptionalism has carried the day among health policymakers, the measures actually enacted by state legislatures across the country reflect, at best, the failure of life to match the elegance of theory. Of course, the argument for exceptionalism does not rest on the many "traditional" measures that have been applied to HIV, but on the undeniably new ones. Even if it is correct to say that the response to HIV is unexceptional in being shaped by contemporary society, the exceptionalists are equally correct in the view that people with HIV have enjoyed unprecedented legal protection of their social status. Conceding that this aspect of the policy response to HIV is something new, I offer a very different account of its meaning and implications than the exceptionalists. Rather than a political concession to effective advocates, the legal protection of people with HIV was an ambitious effort to control, even to change, the social fears that had traditionally made disease control more difficult. I believe that this is consistent with, not antagonistic to, public health, [FN10] and unlike the exceptionalists, I do not believe that the public health rationale for such an approach is losing its force. My fear is not that protecting people with HIV has been a compromise with effective disease control, but that the legal impulse towards protection may not be strong enough to overcome the exceptional fear and revulsion that HIV and other killer diseases traditionally inspire.
Global Hiv Aids Politics Policy And Activism
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Author : Raymond A. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Global Hiv Aids Politics Policy And Activism written by Raymond A. Smith and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Health & Fitness categories.
An international team of specialists in politics, policy, and activism provide an indispensable guide to the persistent challenges and emerging issues posed by the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, now in its fourth decade. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is at a critical turning point. Compelling new findings herald the potential to eventually grind the epidemic to a halt through a combination of expanded treatment coverage and new biomedical approaches to prevention. At the same time, the severe global economic downturns have negatively affected wealthy donor nations that have provided the funds and technical support for programs in the developing world. It is against this backdrop that this landmark three-volume set was developed. It provides a broad overview of the critical political issues surrounding HIV/AIDS, inspects key areas of policy and policymaking, and spotlights the most important forms of activism and community mobilization. The volumes reflect an eclectic and wide-ranging set of issues written by an international team comprising dozens of authors from nations including the United States, the United Kingdom, Ghana, South Africa, Brazil, Cambodia, Norway, and Qatar. The international contributors represent a variety of disciplines and bring with them a range of styles and methodological approaches appropriate to their specific topics and disciplines. An important addition to academic and public libraries, this expansive work will benefit students and other readers interested in politics, policymaking, public health, activism, and community mobilization, both in the United States and globally.
Hiv Exceptionalism And The South African Hiv And Aids Epidemic
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Author : Linda Joy Still
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Hiv Exceptionalism And The South African Hiv And Aids Epidemic written by Linda Joy Still and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with AIDS (Disease) categories.
The Normalization Of The Hiv And Aids Epidemic In South Africa
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Author : Katinka de Wet
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-22
The Normalization Of The Hiv And Aids Epidemic In South Africa written by Katinka de Wet and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-22 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the normalization of HIV and AIDS, reflecting upon the intended and unintended consequences of the multifarious "AIDS industry." The Normalization of the HIV and AIDS Epidemic in South Africa deals with the manner in which the HIV and AIDS epidemic has become such a well-known disease with such wide-ranging ramifications. With its focus on the "AIDS industry," this book examines issues such as the framing of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in a manner that greatly fostered notions of stigmatization and moralization. This book looks at the complexities of dealing with the epidemic in contemporary South Africa, examining the difficulties of addressing the social aspects of a disease in the context of increased focus on technological quick-fix solutions. De Wet explores these issues thoroughly, looking at the social determinants of the spread of the disease as well as the configuration and the nature of the responses to it, and their increasing marginalization as factors to address in an era of increased biomedicalization and concomitant normalization. This book will intrigue scholars and students of public health, global health care, medical sociology, and African Studies.
African Responses To Hiv Aids
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Author : Segun Ige
language : en
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Release Date : 2012
African Responses To Hiv Aids written by Segun Ige and has been published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with AIDS (Disease) categories.
This collection of essays provides a provocative critique of leadership on HIV/AIDS in Africa from the 1980s to the present. The book examines the rhetoric on HIV/AIDS which has influenced culture and behavior, service delivery, policy, the design of national interventions, and the varied success of different countries in containing the pandemic. African scholars put into context a host of public and scholarly disputes ranging from AIDS exceptionalism and Thabo Mbeki's 'denialism,' to the racist debates on 'African promiscuity' and the recent revival of assertions that homosexuality is not an 'African' behavior. The book refers to the records of governments in a wide range of African countries, with case studies drawing on the rhetoric of governments and the nature of government leadership in South Africa, The Gambia, Morocco, Zambia, and Ethiopia, as well as the African Union's declarations on HIV/AIDS. What emerges is that the rhetoric is diverse, occasionally logical, and effective in terms of informing systemic HIV/AIDS interventions that improve the welfare of people, and sometimes it is contradictory to the point of absurdity. *** "...the editors have put together a book that wil intrigue many readers... They address common myths, such as the belief that HIV/AIDS is part of a Western plot to destroy Africans. Credit is also given where it is due, as in the case of Morocco, where the government instituted initiatives at local, regional, and national levels as early as 1986 and now has a prevalence of HIV infection of 0.1 percent. Recommended." C. Apt., South Carolina State University, Choice, February 2013, Vol. 50, No. 6.
Hiv Scale Up And The Politics Of Global Health
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Author : Nora J Kenworthy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Hiv Scale Up And The Politics Of Global Health written by Nora J Kenworthy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Health & Fitness categories.
The global expansion of HIV programming (HIV "scale-up") and the growth of global health in the past decade reshaped politics, power, civic relations, and citizen subjectivities in countries across the globe. This book draws on interdisciplinary research from numerous sites in the Global South to examine the political dimensions of HIV and global health programming. The chapters reflect extensive methodological diversity and geographic range, yet exhibit striking resonance with the book’s core themes. Collectively, the authors paint a complex global portrait of a unique period in the social history of HIV, as the pandemic enters its fourth decade, and the global response reaches its peak. The book contemplates "scale-up" (and, subsequently, "scale-down") as an object of analysis and an historical shift in the politics of response to global crisis. Ultimately, HIV/AIDS campaigns provide a template for the broader expansion of global health projects and institutions. These transnational shifts and expansions necessitate further critical evaluations across social science and public health disciplines. By collecting diverse perspectives on the political legacies of HIV and global health, this book provides a unique history of the present, cataloguing emerging practices and policies that will have long-term social impacts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Public Health.
Ending Aids In The Age Of Biopharmaceuticals
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Author : Tony Sandset
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-09-02
Ending Aids In The Age Of Biopharmaceuticals written by Tony Sandset and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-02 with Medical categories.
This book considers the change in rhetoric surrounding the treatment of AIDS from one of crisis to that of ‘ending AIDS’. Exploring what it means to ‘end AIDS’ and how responsibility is framed in this new discourse, the author considers the tensions generated between the individual and the state in terms of notions such as risk, responsibility and prevention. Based on analyses public health promotions in the UK and the US, HIV prevention science and engaging with the work of Foucault, this volume argues that the discourse of ‘ending AIDS’ implies a tension-filled space in which global principles and values may clash with localised needs, values and concerns; in which evidence-based policies strive for hegemony over local, tacit and communal regimes of knowledge; and in which desires compete with national and international ideas about what is best for the individual in the name of ‘ending AIDS’ writ large. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and media studies with interests in the sociology of medicine and health, medical communication and health policy.