The Makerere University Students AIDS Control Association (MUSACA) was formed in February 1988 at a time when only 2 districts out of 33 in Uganda had not reported AIDS cases. MUSACA was created out of students concern that the people in their home areas were still ignorant about the causes and transmission of AIDS. Their goal was to disseminate what they had learned in their science and medical courses to their communities of origin teaching from their homes. MUSACA sought funding especially to cover fares home and the costs of bicycles to use to tour the countryside from various international organizations. The motivation for forming MUSACA reflect the values and attitudes of a group of young educated Ugandan upper and middle class students the segment of the population to which most of the Ministry of Healths AIDS prevention propaganda appeared to be directed despite the governments professed goal of reaching the general population masses. Uganda is nonetheless currently at the forefront of community-based organization against AIDS in Africa.
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Puerto Rico with a population of approximately 3.5 million people has the second highest prevalence of AIDS in the US. The most systematic data on HIV incidence and prevalence in Puerto Rico come from San Juan in which an estimated 8900 people are infected as a result of IV drug use 2800 through male homosexual behavior and 1600 through heterosexual sex. Approximately 20% of the infected IV drug users and 80% of those infected through heterosexual sex are women. The majority of HIV-related research and services are located in the cities of San Juan Ponce Mayaguez and Caguas. Little is therefore known about HIV infection in the two-thirds of the total population who live outside of these metropolitan centers. The authors discuss the changing perceptions and conflicting responses of the people of Yabucoa to the emergence of HIV infection on the island. Yabucoa is a small municipality on the south coast of Puerto Rico in which a community organization began meeting in 1991. Focus is given to aspects of social organization important to understanding the HIV epidemic how gender patterns may shape local initiatives and possible strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention in rural and semirural areas of Puerto Rico.
{"title":"Community Organizing Around HIV Prevention in Rural Puerto Rico","authors":"I. Susser, J. Kreniske","doi":"10.4324/9780429502422-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429502422-4","url":null,"abstract":"Puerto Rico with a population of approximately 3.5 million people has the second highest prevalence of AIDS in the US. The most systematic data on HIV incidence and prevalence in Puerto Rico come from San Juan in which an estimated 8900 people are infected as a result of IV drug use 2800 through male homosexual behavior and 1600 through heterosexual sex. Approximately 20% of the infected IV drug users and 80% of those infected through heterosexual sex are women. The majority of HIV-related research and services are located in the cities of San Juan Ponce Mayaguez and Caguas. Little is therefore known about HIV infection in the two-thirds of the total population who live outside of these metropolitan centers. The authors discuss the changing perceptions and conflicting responses of the people of Yabucoa to the emergence of HIV infection on the island. Yabucoa is a small municipality on the south coast of Puerto Rico in which a community organization began meeting in 1991. Focus is given to aspects of social organization important to understanding the HIV epidemic how gender patterns may shape local initiatives and possible strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention in rural and semirural areas of Puerto Rico.","PeriodicalId":212857,"journal":{"name":"AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127703751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4324/9780429502422-12
Harrison Rj, Chirimuuta Rc
Western scientists have promoted the hypothesis that AIDS originated in Africa. The scientific evidence in support of this notion includes AIDS-like cases from Africa which predate the epidemic in the West seroepidemiological evidence for early African infection and the isolation from African monkeys of retroviruses considered similar to HIV. However upon close examination such literature is found to be either contradictory insubstantial or unsound. No one has seriously explored whether AIDS was introduced to Africa from the West. The belief that the AIDS epidemic originated in Africa has also distorted Western perceptions of the scale and mode of the epidemics spread in Africa. It would appear that much research into AIDS has been influenced by racism rather than by science. The ideology of racism and racism with regard to the hypothesis that AIDS originated in Africa are discussed through a review of the relevant literature.
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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.
{"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":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429502422-1","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":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116535787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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