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Author Boyd, Lydia, author

Title Preaching prevention : born-again Christianity and the moral politics of AIDS in Uganda / Lydia Boyd
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Perspectives on global health
Perspectives on global health.
Contents American compassion and the politics of AIDS prevention in Uganda -- AIDS at home : urbanization, religious change, and the politics of the household in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Uganda -- "Abstinence is for me, how about you?" : the meaning and morality of sex -- Abstinence and the healthy body : spiritual frameworks for health and -- Healing, or "the right way to live long" -- Faithfulness : urban sexuality and the moral dilemmas of love -- Freedom and the accountable subject : Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill -- Epilogue : beyond the accountable subject
Summary Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to "abstain and be faithful" as a primary prevention strategy in Africa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject United States. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
SUBJECT United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
United States. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief fast
Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Uganda -- Prevention
AIDS (Disease) -- Control -- Uganda
Christianity -- Uganda
Sexual abstinence -- Uganda
Sexual abstinence -- United States
Medical policy -- Uganda
Medical policy -- United States
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention
Christianity
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Medical policy
Sexual abstinence
Uganda
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821445327
0821445324