LEADER 04342nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910528754003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5850-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780801458507 035 $a(CKB)2670000000080925 035 $a(EBL)3138031 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483259 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11306164 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483259 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10529101 035 $a(PQKB)11517665 035 $a(OCoLC)967539806 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28757 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138031 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457653 035 $a(OCoLC)726824296 035 $a(DE-B1597)545746 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801458507 035 $a(OCoLC)1262307743 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138031 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000080925 100 $a20090421d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChanging the course of AIDS $epeer education in South Africa and its lessons for the global crisis /$fDavid Dickinson ; foreword by Charles Deutsch 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca $cILR Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 225 1 $aThe culture and politics of health care work 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8014-4831-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"Empowered with information I have influenced a lot of people" : the quest for behavioral change -- "People are dying, but they don't listen when we tell them" : the corporate response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa -- "For the love of people" : peer education as a response from below -- Backstage social divisions -- Slipping out of order -- To speak with one voice -- Social space, leadership, and action : peer education and behavioral change. 330 $aChanging the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This case study from the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic demonstrates that regular workers serving as peer educators can be as?or even more?effective agents of behavioral change than experts who lecture about the facts and so-called appropriate health care behavior.After spending six years researching the response of large South African companies to the epidemic that is decimating their workforce as well as South African communities, David Dickinson describes the promise of this grassroots intervention?workers educating one another in the workplace and community?and the limitations of traditional top-down strategies. Dickinson's book takes us right into the South African workplace to show how effective and yet enormously complex peer education really is. We see what it means when workers directly tackle the kinds of sexual, gender, religious, ethnic, and broader social and political taboos that make behavior change so difficult, particularly when that behavior involves sex and sexuality.Dickinson's findings show that people who are not officially health care experts or even health care workers can be skilled and effective educators. In this book we see why peer education has so much to offer societies grappling with the HIV/AIDS epidemic and why those interested in changing behaviors to ameliorate other health problems like obesity, alcoholism, and substance abuse have so much to learn from the South African example. 410 0$aCulture and politics of health care work. 606 $aAIDS (Disease)$zSouth Africa 606 $aPeer counseling$zSouth Africa 606 $aChange (Psychology)$xHealth aspects$zSouth Africa 606 $aOccupational health services$zSouth Africa 606 $aHealth education$zSouth Africa 615 0$aAIDS (Disease) 615 0$aPeer counseling 615 0$aChange (Psychology)$xHealth aspects 615 0$aOccupational health services 615 0$aHealth education 676 $a362.196/979200968 700 $aDickinson$b David$f1963-$01158723 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910528754003321 996 $aChanging the Course of AIDS$92705970 997 $aUNINA