Gender and HIV/AIDS: Critical Perspectives from the by Nana K. Poku,Jelke, Dr Boesten,Nana K, Professor Poku

By Nana K. Poku,Jelke, Dr Boesten,Nana K, Professor Poku

Gender matters are critical to the factors and impression of the continuing AIDS epidemic. The editors compile innovative modern scholarship on gender and AIDS in a single quantity. They deal with questions concerning gender and sexuality, how men and women reside the epidemic in a different way and the way such changes result in assorted results. the quantity joins learn on Africa, Asia and Latin the USA and illustrates how the epidemic has diversified gendered features, motives and outcomes in numerous areas. jointly, the chapters reveal the elemental ways in which gender impacts the unfold of the illness, its impression and the luck of prevention efforts.

This scholarly, interdisciplinary quantity offers a finished creation to the subjects and problems with gender, AIDS and worldwide public wellbeing and fitness and informs scholars, coverage makers and practitioners of the complexity of the gendered nature of AIDS.

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