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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450329303321

Autore

Booth Karen M. <1962->

Titolo

Local women, global science [[electronic resource] ] : fighting AIDS in Kenya / / Karen M. Booth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004

ISBN

9786612071829

1-282-07182-3

0-253-11078-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

362.1/969792/0096762

384.809497

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - Kenya

AIDS (Disease) in women - Kenya

AIDS (Disease) - Government policy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Global medicine, local sex, and crisis -- Nairobi's casino: colonizing AIDS in the urban clinic -- Negotiating AIDS policy in Kenya: 1984-1994 -- "High-frequency transmitters" and invisible men -- "A husband can have a thousand girlfriends!" -- Drugs for whom? "African AIDS" in the second decade.

Sommario/riassunto

There is evidence that women who live in societies that uphold male                privilege -- the majority of the world's women -- are at increased risk for HIV                infection. In Local Women, Global Science, Karen M. Booth looks closely at the                operation of two clinics for sexually transmitted diseases in Nairobi, Kenya, and                explores how internationally funded and nationally sanctioned interventions to stop                the spread of HIV have focused almost exclusively on the sexual and reproductive                behaviors of those who are least