Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa Volume 20

by Robert J. Thornton

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This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520255534

ISBN13:9780520255531

Release Date:September 2008

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Anthropology Clinical Cultural Forensic Medicine Internal Medicine Medical Medical Books Medicine Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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