Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa By Robert J. Thornton
2008 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 0520255534 | PDF | 5 MB
2008 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 0520255534 | PDF | 5 MB
This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined differences in the structure of sexual networksrather than changes in individual behaviorwere responsible for these radical differences in HIV.