Families and Communities Responding to Aids
All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious illnesses such as HIV and AIDS. Yet families and communities can also stigmatize their members, leaving people to die in the most appalling conditions. This book looks at the diversity of family and community responses to HIV and AIDS. By examining contexts as diverse as nuclear, extended and refugee family households, and gay community networks and structures,...
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By examining contexts as diverse as nuclear, extended and refugee family households and gay community networks, this book offers insight into the factors which lead to positive responses to AIDS, and those which trigger negative ones.
FiguresTablesIntroduction1Ch. 1Getting on with Life: The Experience of Families of Children with HIV Infection5Ch. 2African Refugee Children and HIV/AIDS in London21Ch. 3Solidarity and Stress: Gender and Local Mobilization in Tanzania and Zambia35Ch. 4Gender, Disclosure, Care and Decision Making in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa53Ch. 5Narratives of Care, Love and Commitment: AIDS/HIV and Non-Heterosexual Family Formations67Ch. 6Everyone on the Scene is so Cliquey83Ch. 7Coming Together: Social Networks of Gay Men and HIV Prevention99Ch. 8Observing the Rules: An Ethnographic Study of London's Cottages and Cruising Areas121Ch. 9Sydney Gay Men's Agreements about Sex133Ch. 10Young Gay Men and HIV Risk147Ch. 11A New Method of Peer-Led HIV Prevention with Gay and Bisexual Men163Ch. 12Sexual Risk Taking and HIV Testing: A Qualitative Investigation185Ch. 13Treatment Education: A Multidisciplinary Challenge199Notes on contributors213Index219
