AIDS, Behavior, and Culture

Understanding Evidence-Based Prevention

Edward C Green, Allison Herling Ruark

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Left Coast Press Inc
01 January 2011

HIV & AIDS: social aspects

Series: Key Questions in Anthropology

AIDS, Behavior, and Culture presents a bold challenge to the prevailing wisdom of “the global AIDS industry” and offers an alternative framework for understanding what works in HIV prevention. Arguing for a behavior-based approach, Green and Ruark make the case that the most effective programs are those that encourage fundamental behavioral changes such as abstinence, delay of sex, faithfulness, and cessation of injection drug use. Successful programs are locally based, low cost, low tech, innovative, and built on existing cultural structures.

In contrast, they argue that anthropologists and public health practitioners focus on counseling, testing, condoms, and treatment, and impose their Western values, culture, and political ideologies in an attempt to “liberate” non-Western people from sexual repression and homophobia. This provocative book is essential reading for anyone working in HIV/AIDS prevention, and a stimulating introduction to the key controversies and approaches in global health and medical anthropology for students and general readers.

By: Edward C Green, Allison Herling Ruark
Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: v. 3
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781598744781
ISBN 10: 159874478X
Series: Key Questions in Anthropology
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 01 January 2011
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Edward C Green, Allison Herling Ruark

Reviews for AIDS, Behavior, and Culture: Understanding Evidence-Based Prevention

AIDS, Behavior, and Culture should be on every Africanist medical anthropology reading list. Edward Green, an anthropologist with long background in field research and an established record of insightful publications on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, teams up in this book with a rising young epidemiologist to argue convincingly and with fresh research evidence for the importance of behavioral change in coming to grips with the still spreading HIV/AIDS epidemic. - John M. Janzen, University of Kansas - Lawrence