Description: Further DetailsTitle: HIV ExceptionalismCondition: NewSubtitle: Development through Disease in Sierra LeoneISBN-10: 0816692432EAN: 9780816692439ISBN: 9780816692439Publisher: University of Minnesota PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/15/2015Description: WINNER, 2017 RACHEL CARSON PRIZE, SOCIETY FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a decadelong civil war. Seeking international attention and development aid, its government faced a dilemma. Though devastated by conflict, Sierra Leone had a low prevalence of HIV. However, like most African countries, it stood to benefit from a large influx of foreign funds specifically targeted at HIV/AIDS prevention and care. What Adia Benton chronicles in this ethnographically rich and often moving book is how one war-ravaged nation reoriented itself as a country suffering from HIV at the expense of other, more pressing health concerns. During her fieldwork in the capital, Freetown, a city of one million people, at least thirty NGOs administered internationally funded programs that included HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Benton probes why HIV exceptionalism—the idea that HIV is an exceptional disease requiring an exceptional response—continues to guide approaches to the epidemic worldwide and especially in Africa, even in low-prevalence settings. In the fourth decade since the emergence of HIV/AIDS, many today are questioning whether the effort and money spent on this health crisis has in fact helped or exacerbated the problem. HIV Exceptionalism does this and more, asking, what are the unanticipated consequences that HIV/AIDS development programs engender?Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 25mmAuthor: Adia BentonGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Quadrant BookTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: HIV Exceptionalism
Title: HIV Exceptionalism
Subtitle: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone
ISBN-10: 0816692432
EAN: 9780816692439
ISBN: 9780816692439
Release Date: 02/15/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Hiv Exceptionalism : Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Public Health, Africa / General, Diseases / Aids & Hiv, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Health Policy
Item Weight: 10.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Health & Fitness, Medical, History
Author: Adia Benton
Series: A Quadrant Book Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
