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In Search Of Safety, Negotiating Everyday Forms Of Risk: Sex Work, Criminalization, And Hiv/Aids In The Slums Of Kampala, Serena Cruz
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation offers an in-depth descriptive account of how women manage daily risks associated with sex work, criminalization, and HIV/AIDS. Primary data collection took place within two slums in Kampala, Uganda over the course of fourteen months. The emphasis was on ethnographic methodologies involving participant observation and informal and unstructured interviewing. Insights then informed document analysis of international and national policies concerning HIV prevention and treatment strategies in the context of Uganda. The dissertation finds social networks and social capital provide the basis for community formation in the sex trade. It holds that these interpersonal processes are necessary components for …
Pepfar’S Declining Investment In Treatment, Matthew Kavanagh, Marguerite Thorp
Pepfar’S Declining Investment In Treatment, Matthew Kavanagh, Marguerite Thorp
Matthew M. Kavanagh
Since its inception in 2003, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has saved millions of lives through providing anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS. However, our analysis of publicly available PEPFAR operational plans shows that funding to AIDS treatment has actually fallen significantly since 2008 in both absolute dollars and as a portion of total budgets—just at a pivotal moment when investment could change the course of the epidemic.
Trends. The Privileged Status Of The Physical In Health Ideology: The Security Consequences Of Aids, Ibpp Editor
Trends. The Privileged Status Of The Physical In Health Ideology: The Security Consequences Of Aids, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses the importance of recognizing both physical and psychological factors of the AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) pandemic on security.
Trends. The Attack On Mbeki: Praising Through Damning, Ibpp Editor
Trends. The Attack On Mbeki: Praising Through Damning, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses the controversial contention by President Thabo Mbeki of the Republic of South Africa that poverty and lack of health infrastructures are the causes of AIDS and HIV in Africa instead of limiting his analysis to the biological line of virus inducing disease.
The Import Of Political Psychology For Global Health And Security: The Case Of Aids, Ibpp Editor
The Import Of Political Psychology For Global Health And Security: The Case Of Aids, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes a number of applied research areas that political psychologists can explore to help manage the threat to global health and security from acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Trends. Controlling Aids Through Control, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Controlling Aids Through Control, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses the concept of political control and public health in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Heterosexuality, Condoms, And Political Destabilization In Africa, Ibpp Editor
Heterosexuality, Condoms, And Political Destabilization In Africa, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes psychosocial factors linked to condom use and the political implications of not maintaining this linkage.