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



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Autore: Booth Karen M. <1962-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Local women, global science [[electronic resource] ] : fighting AIDS in Kenya / / Karen M. Booth Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
Disciplina: 362.1/969792/0096762
384.809497
Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease) - Kenya
AIDS (Disease) in women - Kenya
AIDS (Disease) - Government policy
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
Titolo autorizzato: Local women, global science  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612071829
1-282-07182-3
0-253-11078-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450329303321
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