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Women's experiences with HIV/AIDS : an international perspective

Title

Women's experiences with HIV/AIDS : an international perspective / edited by Lynellyn D. Long and E. Maxine Ankrah.

Format

Book

Published

New York : Columbia University Press, c1996.

Description

x, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Other contributors

Long, Lynellyn. Ankrah, E. M.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Negative in the beginning, positive in the end / Christine Thomas
• I have a life, I will live / Anonymous
• Women who sleep with women / Joyce Hunter and Priscilla Alexander
• HIV/AIDS: a personal perspective / Debbie Runions
• Making a living: women who go out / Priscilla Alexander
• Bargaining for life: women and the AIDS epidemic in Haiti / Priscilla R. Ulin, Michel Cayemittes, and Robert Gringle
• The socioeconomic impact of AIDS on women in Tanzania / Anne Outwater
• "I'm not afraid of life or death": women in brothels in Northern Thailand / Katherine C. Bond, David D. Celentano, and Chayan Vaddhanaphuti
• Women's social representation of sex, sexuality, and AIDS in Brazil / Luiza Klein-Alonso

• The impact of structural adjustment programs on women and AIDS / Mubina Hassanali Kirmani and Dorothy Munyakho
• The epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in women / Jeanine M. Buzy and Helene D. Gayle
• Sexually transmitted diseases as catalysts of HIV/AIDS in women / Barbara Parker and David W. Patterson
• HIV and breast feeding: informed choice in the face of medical ambiguity / Chloe O'Gara and Anna C. Martin
• Women, children, and HIV/AIDS / Carrie Auer
• Care and support systems / E. Maxine Ankrah, Martin Schwartz, and Jaclyn Miller

• Dilemmas for women in the second decade / Elizabeth A. Preble and Galia D. Siegel
• Women educating women for HIV/AIDS prevention / Kathleen Cash
• Talking about sex: a prerequisite for AIDS prevention / Geeta Rao Gupta, Ellen Weiss and Purnima Mane
• Challenges for the development of female-controlled vaginal microbicides / Christopher J. Elias and Lori L. Heise
• The ethics of social and behavioral research on women and AIDS / Carl Kendall
• Epilogue: What next? A policy agenda
• E. Maxine Ankrah and Lynellyn D. Long.

Kinsey subjects

AIDS--Female. AIDS research--Female.

ISBN

0231106041 (cl : alk. paper) 023110605X (pbk. : alk. paper)