Hiv and East Africa - Thirty Years in the Shadow of an Epidemic

Informationen zum Autor Janet Seeley holds a PhD is social anthropology from the University of Cambridge (1985). She has been actively engaged in research on HIV and AIDS since the late 1980s, including four years with MRC in Uganda 1989-1993 when she was responsible for setting up social science research in the Unit, the Programme she returned to Uganda to head in 2008. She has worked in a number of different countries over the last 30 years. Klappentext By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, Janet Seeley investigates the impact of the epidemic on people's lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades. Zusammenfassung By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, Janet Seeley investigates the impact of the epidemic on people’s lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Learning to Live with HIV 2. Loss and Grief 3. Crises and Change 4. Progress and Growth 5. The Changing Epidemic: Treatment and Care 6. Managing Loss, Forgetting the Pain?

Product details

• Authors: Janet Seeley, Seeley Janet
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.2015
• EAN: 9780415822510
• ISBN: 978-0-415-82251-0
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: Routledge Studies in African Development
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Health & personal development, Politics & government, Biodiversity, Environmental Economics, environmental science, engineering & technology, Regional Studies, Environmental law, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Jurisprudence & general issues, Development Studies, Environment law, Regional Geography, Health, Relationships and Personal development, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Jurisprudence and general issues, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases