You're the First One I've Told : The Faces of HIV in the Deep South /

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The Deep South has seen a 36 percent increase in AIDS cases while the rest of the nation has seen a 2 percent decline. Many of the underlying reasons for the disease's continued spread in the region - ignorance about HIV, reluctance to get tested, non-adherence to treatment protocols, resistanc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whetten, Kathryn, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease)
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
human ecology.
Écologie sociale.
Infections à VIH.
Sida > États-Unis (Sud)
Social Environment
HIV Infections
Social ecology.
HIV infections.
AIDS (Disease) > Southern States.
Southern States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The Deep South has seen a 36 percent increase in AIDS cases while the rest of the nation has seen a 2 percent decline. Many of the underlying reasons for the disease's continued spread in the region - ignorance about HIV, reluctance to get tested, non-adherence to treatment protocols, resistance to behavioral changes - remain unaddressed by policymakers. In this book, the authors present a discussion of twenty-five ethnographic life stories of people living with HIV in the South. Most importantly, they incorporate research from their quantitative study, "Coping with HIV/AIDS in the Southeast" (CHASE), which includes 611 HIV-positive patients from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780813554525

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