HIV and AIDS

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Author(s)
Welbourn, Alice
Publication date
2008-03-31
Subject
Gender
Health
Keywords
HIV and AIDS
Gender mainstreaming
Country
South Africa
Cambodia
United Kingdom
Papua New Guinea

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Practical Action Publishing
Series
Working in Gender and Development
Document type
Book
Description
This book takes a look at the key challenges of HIV and AIDS from a gender perspective, and describes positive responses in areas of the world as diverse as Cambodia, South Africa, the UK, and Papua New Guinea. The impacts of HIV on women and men across the world are devastating and wide-ranging. Girls may have to drop out of school to look after sick relatives, boys to earn money. The death of working-age adults can mean that surviving family members struggle to get by, with grandparents shouldering the burden of looking after orphaned grandchildren, often in dire poverty. Young women may have to resort to sex work, and other risky survival strategies to support themselves and their families. Young men are growing up with ideas about masculinity that include violence and the sexual domination of women, and would be ostracised by peers if they acted otherwise, contributing to the spread of HIV. The contributors analyse these contexts, exploring the links between HIV, AIDS, gender inequality, and poverty. They present accounts of successful interventions, recording experience, describing good practice, and sharing information about resources. This book is essential reading for development practitioners and policy makers involved in responding to the HIV and AIDS crisis. Working in Gender & Development series bring together themed selections of the best articles from the Oxfam journal Gender & Development, supplemented with specially commissioned articles and material drawn from other Oxfam publications. Each title is edited by a key thinker in the field, and includes an up-to-the-minute overview of current thinking and thoughts on future policy responses.
Table of contents
Introduction; Part I: Exploring the root causes of HIV; 1. HIV/AIDS, globalisation, and the international women's movement, Sisonke Msimang; 2. Challenges and opportunities for promoting the girl child's rights in the face of HIV/AIDS, Mildred Tambudzai Mushunje; 3. 'I'm too young to die': HIV, masculinity, danger and desire in urban South Africa, Shannon Walsh and Claudia Mitchell; 4. A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa, Madhu Bala Nath; 5. Safe motherhood in the time of AIDS: the illusion of reproductive 'choice', Carolyn Baylies; Part II: Rethinking 'our' attitudes to 'others' realities; 6. Diversifying gender: male to female transgender identities and HIV/AIDS programming in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Barbara Earth; 7. Young men and HIV, Doortje Braeken, Raoul Fransen, and Tim Shand; 8. HIV-positive African women surviving in London: report of a qualitative study, Lesley Doyal and Jane Anderson; Part III: Practical multiple approaches; 9. Mitigating impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods: NGO experiences in sub-Saharan Africa, Joanna White and John Morton; 10. Danger and opportunity: responding to HIV with vision, Kate Butcher and Alice Welbourn; 11. 'Mainstreaming'; HIV in Papua New Guinea: putting gender equity first, Janet Seeley and Kate Butcher; Part IV: Positive agency and action; 12. Advocacy training by the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS; Conclusion
Pages
160
ISBN
978-0-85598-603-2
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/115533
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/hiv-and-aids-115533
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