ABSTRACT
All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious illnesses such as HIV and AIDS. Yet families and communities can also stigmatize their members, leaving people to die in the most appalling conditions. This book looks at the diversity of family and community responses to HIV and AIDS. By examining contexts as diverse as nuclear, extended and refugee family households, and gay community networks and structures, it offers important insight into the factors which lead to positive responses and those which trigger negative ones.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|16 pages
Getting on with Life
The Experience of Families of Children with HIV Infection
chapter Chapter 3|18 pages
Solidarity and Stress
Gender and Local Mobilization in Tanzania and Zambia
chapter Chapter 4|13 pages
Gender, Disclosure, Care and Decision Making in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
A Pilot Programme using Storytelling Techniques
chapter Chapter 5|16 pages
Narratives of Care, Love and Commitment
AIDS/HIV and Non-Heterosexual Family Formations
chapter Chapter 6|16 pages
Everyone on the Scene is so Cliquey
Are Gay Bars an Appropriate Context for a Community-Based Peer-Led Intervention?
chapter Chapter 8|12 pages
Observing the Rules
An Ethnographic Study of London's Cottages and Cruising Areas