Local women, global science : fighting AIDS in Kenya /

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Karen Booth looks closely at the operation of two clinics in Nairobi, & explores how internationally funded & nationally sanctioned interventions to stop the spread of HIV are focused on the working class & poor - those least able to challenge traditional patterns of behavior, including...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Booth, Karen M., 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Kenya.
AIDS (Disease) in women > Kenya.
AIDS (Disease) > Government policy.
Medical policy.
Women > Health and hygiene.
Women's rights.
HIV Infections > prevention & control
Health Policy
HIV Infections > ethnology
Sexual Behavior > ethnology
Women's Health
Women's Rights
Sida > Kenya.
Sida chez la femme > Kenya.
Sida > Politique gouvernementale.
Politique sanitaire.
Femmes > Santé et hygiène.
Femmes > Droits.
MEDICAL > AIDS & HIV.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > AIDS & HIV.
AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease) in women.
Aids
Frau
Prävention
AIDS.
Preventieve gezondheidszorg.
Seksueel gedrag.
Vrouwen.
Overheidsbeleid.
Kenya
Kenya.
Graubünden
Kenia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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