Changing the Course of AIDS : : Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis / / David Dickinson.

Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This case study from the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic demonstrates that regular workers serving...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 14 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. "Empowered with Information I Have Influenced a Lot of People": The Quest for Behavioral Change
  • 2. "People Are Dying, but They Don't Listen When We Tell Them": The Corporate Response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa
  • 3. "For the Love of People": Peer Education as a Response from Below
  • 4. Backstage Social Divisions
  • 5. Slipping Out of Order
  • 6. To Speak with One Voice
  • 7. Social Space, Leadership, and Action: Peer Education and Behavioral Change
  • Appendix 1: Tables
  • Appendix 2: Methodology
  • References
  • Index