{"title":"The Anthropology of AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean","authors":"G. Bond, J. Kreniske, I. Susser, J. Vincent","doi":"10.4324/9780429502422-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Legacies of colonialism and poverty have combined with the current global economy to worsen the impact of natural disasters in Africa and the Caribbean with HIV being but one source of crisis and suffering in desperate need of attention. Understanding HIV infection in poor countries demands that researchers struggle with issues such as income inequality land reform the alienation of peasants from the land labor migration colonial and post-colonial patterns of industrial exploitation the resulting proliferation of informal settlements gender hierarchies and the increasing separation of children from their formal family connections. Only through an understanding of the specific social and historical contexts can effective measures be designed and implemented to prevent HIV infection or cope with its impact. Poverty and social disruption demand that moral issues be evaluated within a different framework. Selected literature on sexual behavior and changing social conditions Cubas public health policy women and HIV infection HIV infection and global travel and policy issues are reviewed.","PeriodicalId":212857,"journal":{"name":"AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429502422-1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Legacies of colonialism and poverty have combined with the current global economy to worsen the impact of natural disasters in Africa and the Caribbean with HIV being but one source of crisis and suffering in desperate need of attention. Understanding HIV infection in poor countries demands that researchers struggle with issues such as income inequality land reform the alienation of peasants from the land labor migration colonial and post-colonial patterns of industrial exploitation the resulting proliferation of informal settlements gender hierarchies and the increasing separation of children from their formal family connections. Only through an understanding of the specific social and historical contexts can effective measures be designed and implemented to prevent HIV infection or cope with its impact. Poverty and social disruption demand that moral issues be evaluated within a different framework. Selected literature on sexual behavior and changing social conditions Cubas public health policy women and HIV infection HIV infection and global travel and policy issues are reviewed.