Annals of anthropological practice: HIV/AIDS and food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa

This collection of 14 chapters brings together a wide array of applied anthropologists, other social scientists, and practitioners to detail the ways in which public health measures can be effectively integrated with HIV/AIDS prevention, anti-retroviral treatment, and food security efforts in sub-Saharan Africa. INDICE: 1. Introduction: Anthropologists Confront HIV/AIDS and Food Insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa John Mazzeo, Alexander Rödlach, and Barrett P. Brenton 2. Toward a Critical Biosocial Model of Ecohealth in Southern Africa: The HIV/AIDS and Nutrition Insecurity Syndemic Merrill Singer 3. Food Insecurity and Maternal-to-Child Transmission of HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa Daniel W. Sellen and Craig Hadley 4. Safe Infant Feeding in Lesotho in the Era of HIV/AIDS Lena Kroeker and Alyx Beckwith 5. If I Take My Pills Ill Go Hungry: The Choice between Economic Security and HIV/AIDS Treatment in Grahamstown, South Africa Chaunetta Jones 6. Poverty, Nutrition, and a Cultural Model of Managing HIV/AIDS among Women in Nairobi, Kenya Toni J. Copeland 7. Cycles of Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Psychosocial Stress among AIDS-Care Volunteers in Urban Ethiopia Kenneth Maes and Selamawit Shifferaw 8. Complexities of the Transactional Sex Model: Nonproviding Men, Self-Providing Women, and HIV Risk in Rural Malawi Janneke Verheijen 9. Livelihood Demands and the Spread of Aids: The case of Malawi Mike Njalayawo Mtika 10. Twelve Years on: HIV and AIDS and Livelihoods in Zambia Fiona Samuels and Michael Drinkwater 11. The Double Threat ofHIV/AIDS and Drought on Rural Household Food Security in Southeastern Zimbabwe John Mazzeo 12. Contested Strategies for Defining and Confronting Food Insecurity and HIV/AIDS in Zambia: Rejection of GM Food Aid during the 200203 Food Crisis Barrett P. Brenton 13. Food, Health, Development, and HIV/AIDS in a Remote Area of Southern Africa Robert K. Hitchcock and Wayne A. Babchuk 14. Aids is in the Food: Zimbabweans Association between Nutrition and HIV/AIDS and their Potential for Addressing Food Insecurity and HIV/AIDS Alexander Rödlach

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-6155-1
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 31/10/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés