AIDS and South Africa: The Social Expression of a Pandemic - Softcover

Kauffman, Kyle Dean; Lindauer, David L.; Desmond Tutu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403932565 ISBN 13: 9781403932563

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Synopsis

The HIV/AIDS pandemic striking South Africa is of historic proportions. More people are living with AIDS in South Africa than in any other country in the world. Just in the past decade, the life expectancy in South Africa has dropped from 67 to 43 years.

About this title

About the Author:

CLAUDIA C. BERMUDES RIBIERO DA CRUZ Partner, Consumer Insight Agency JEFFREY D. LEWIS Economic Advisor in the International Trade Department and the Prospects Group in the World Bank MARILYN MARTIN Director of Art Collections for Iziko Museums of Cape Town, South Africa HOWARD PHILLIPS Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa JEFFREY D. SACHS Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, USA SONIA ERLICH SACHS Pediatrician interested in pediatric issues in developing countries, especially childhood malaria and AIDS orphans VIRGINIA VAN DER VLIET Social Anthropologist, South Africa CAL VOLKS Director of the HIV/AIDS Unit at the University of Cape Town, South Africa DIANA CHAPMAN WALSH President of Wellesley College, USA

Review:

'In many fundamental ways this volume reflects both the approach and the spirit needed to address the challenge of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. There will not be one solution to the AIDS pandemic. We need to fight this battle on many fronts. We need to understand the politics, both nationally and internationally, that have conditioned the thus far inadequate response to HIV/AIDS. We need to anticipate the economic consequences of the epidemic and to prepare for them. We need to understand individual behaviour, especially of our youth, that puts too many at risk. We need to promote the activism required for change. This volume addresses these critical elements.' - Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus

'Sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists demonstrate the varied social forces that make the spread of Aids so much a part of the environment. Innovative essays suggest the way in which Aids denial is part of the dominant political discourse of the country, while a few examine how HIV/Aids has become an artistic metaphor'. - Anthony Egan, Mail & Guardian Online

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1403932565
• ISBN 13: 9781403932563
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214