Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa.

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Author / Creator:	Thornton, Robert J.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (305 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	California Series in Public Anthropology California series in public anthropology.
Subject:	AIDS (Disease) -- Uganda -- Epidemiology. AIDS (Disease) -- South Africa -- Epidemiology. AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Uganda. AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- South Africa. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology -- South Africa. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology -- Uganda. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control -- South Africa. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control -- Uganda. Anthropology, Cultural -- methods -- South Africa. Anthropology, Cultural -- methods -- Uganda. Health Policy -- South Africa. Health Policy -- Uganda. Sexual Behavior -- South Africa. Sexual Behavior -- Uganda. Socioeconomic Factors -- South Africa. Socioeconomic Factors -- Uganda. AIDS (Disease) -- Epidemiology. AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects. Epidemiology. South Africa -- Epidemiology. Uganda -- Epidemiology. South Africa. Uganda. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11212234

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ISBN:	9780520942653 0520942655 0520255534 0520255526 9780520255524 9780520255531 1282360779 9781282360778
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined differences in the structure of sexual networksrather than changes in individual behaviorwere responsible for these radical differences in HIV.
Other form:	Print version: 9780520255531
Standard no.:	9780520255531

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