Description |
1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations, map |
Contents |
Setting the stage -- Voices of the past -- Enter HIV -- Abuse, trauma, and HIV -- Distrust, conspiracy and confidentiality and provider relationships -- Benefit systems -- The importance of children -- Sex, love, family and other support -- Theoretical framework -- The future |
Summary |
The Deep South has seen a 36 percent increase in AIDS cases while the rest of the nation has seen a 2 percent decline. Many of the underlying reasons for the disease's continued spread in the region - ignorance about HIV, reluctance to get tested, non-adherence to treatment protocols, resistance to behavioral changes - remain unaddressed by policymakers. In this book, the authors present a discussion of twenty-five ethnographic life stories of people living with HIV in the South. Most importantly, they incorporate research from their quantitative study, "Coping with HIV/AIDS in the Southeast" (CHASE), which includes 611 HIV-positive patients from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-247) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Southern States
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HIV infections.
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Social ecology.
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HIV Infections
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Social Environment
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human ecology.
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Social ecology
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HIV infections
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AIDS (Disease)
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Southern States
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780813554549 |
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0813554543 |
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9781461940531 |
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1461940532 |
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1299821928 |
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9781299821927 |
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