Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Contextualizing HIV/AIDS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Getnet Tadele

      Pages 3-24

   3. Contextualizing HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Link with Tradition, Religion, and Culture

      • Getnet Tadele, Woldekidan Amde

      Pages 25-45

   4. Gender Inequalities, Power Relations, and HIV/AIDS: Exploring the Interface

      • Ayalew Gebre, Tekalign Ayalew, Helmut Kloos

      Pages 46-61

   5. Youth Sexuality and HIV/AIDS: Issues and Contentions

      • Woldekidan Amde, Getnet Tadele

      Pages 62-83

   6. Food Insecurity, Poverty, and HIV/AIDS

      • Ayalew Gebre, Sebsib Belay, Helmut Kloos

      Pages 84-104

3. Impacts and Responses to HIV/AIDS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Socioeconomic and Psychosocial Impacts of HIV/AIDS and Responses at Different Levels of Society

      • Ayalew Gebre, Damtew Yirgu, Helmut Kloos

      Pages 107-126

   3. HIV/AIDS and the Mining and Commercial Agricultural Sectors in Southern Africa

      • Charles Hongoro, Getnet Tadele, Helmut Kloos

      Pages 127-142

   4. Access to Treatment, Care, Support, and Prevention Services

      • Getnet Tadele, Woldekidan Amde, Helmut Kloos

      Pages 143-173

   5. Care and Support for AIDS Orphans

      • Woldekidan Amde, Getnet Tadele

      Pages 174-195

   6. Mainstreaming HIV Interventions into Education Systems

      • Anne A. Khasakhala

      Pages 196-211

   7. Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs

      • Anne A. Khasakhala, Helmut Kloos

      Pages 212-231

   8. Ethical Issues in HIV/AIDS Biomedical Research

      • Anne A. Khasakhala, Helmut Kloos

      Pages 232-252

   9. Conclusion

      • Damen Haile Mariam, Helmut Kloos

      Pages 253-261

4. Back Matter

   Pages 262-274

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This book examines HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities, impacts and responses in the socioeconomic and cultural context of Sub-Saharan Africa. With contributions from social scientists and public health experts, the volume identifies gender inequality and poverty as the main causes of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

• AIDS
• care
• educational system
• evaluation
• gender
• poverty
• religion
• service

'This book provides a wealth of fine grained detail about the unfolding HIV/AIDS epidemic and the expanding interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa, and particularly in eastern and southern Africa. Most HIV prevention programmes in Africa have failed because biomedically orientated actors have failed to adequately address the social, cultural, economic and political context of HIV/AIDS and human sexuality, disease impacts and interventions. This book goes some way to addressing that gap and provides new and relevant information for health planners, administrators, students and researchers, thus representing a major achievement by the ten authors and two editors.' - Anne Scott, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

'This book can inform undergraduate and graduate students of public health, and epidemiology, clinical medicine, African studies, medical anthropology and medical sociology, as well as health planners, health administrators, and NGO staff. Thus it may contribute to accelerating the current decline in HIV incidence and AIDS mortality and promote adequate and sustainable care for the still growing number of patients, orphans, and other affected people.' - Ahmed Ali, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

• Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

  Getnet Tadele

• University of California, USA

  Helmut Kloos

Woldekidan Amde, University of Western Cape, South Africa Tekalign Ayalew, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Sebsib Belay, Indira Gandhi National Open University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ayalew Gebre, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Damen Haile Mariam, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Charles Hongoro, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa Anne Khasakhala, University of Nairobi, Kenya Helmut Kloos, University of California, USA Getnet Tadele, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Damtew Yirgu, Ministry of Agriculture in Arsi Region, Ethiopia

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