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Author Booth, Karen M., 1962-

Title Local women, global science : fighting AIDS in Kenya / Karen M. Booth
Published Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages)
Contents Global medicine, local sex, and crisis -- Nairobi's casino: colonizing AIDS in the urban clinic -- Negotiating AIDS policy in Kenya: 1984-1994 -- "High-frequency transmitters" and invisible men -- "A husband can have a thousand girlfriends!" -- Drugs for whom? "African AIDS" in the second decade
Summary Karen Booth looks closely at the operation of two clinics in Nairobi, & explores how internationally funded & nationally sanctioned interventions to stop the spread of HIV are focused on the working class & poor - those least able to challenge traditional patterns of behavior, including male dominance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Kenya
AIDS (Disease) in women -- Kenya
AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy
Medical policy.
Women -- Health and hygiene.
Women's rights.
HIV Infections -- prevention & control
Health Policy
HIV Infections -- ethnology
Sexual Behavior -- ethnology
Women's Health
Women's Rights
MEDICAL -- AIDS & HIV.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- AIDS & HIV.
Women's rights
Women -- Health and hygiene
Medical policy
AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy
AIDS (Disease) in women
Aids
Frau
Prävention
AIDS.
Preventieve gezondheidszorg.
Seksueel gedrag.
Vrouwen.
Overheidsbeleid.
SUBJECT Kenya
Subject Kenya
Graubünden
Kenia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0253110785
9780253110787
1282071823
9781282071827
9786612071829
6612071826