Socialising the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention

Socialising the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention

by Niamh Stephenson and Susan Kippax
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 28/06/2016

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This book concerns HIV prevention. In it the authors argue that until the world focuses its attention on the social issues carried and revealed by AIDS, it is unlikely that HIV transmission will be eradicated or even significantly reduced. The book argues that we are currently witnessing the remedicalisation or the continuing biomedicalisation of HIV prevention, which began in earnest after the development of successful HIV treatment, and that this biomedical trajectory continues with the increasing push to use HIV treatments as prevention, undermining what has been in many countries a successful prevention response. This wide-ranging study argues that HIV prevention involves enabling people and communities to discuss sex, sexuality and drug use and, informed by these discussion, devising locally effective strategies for promoting safe sexual and drug injection practices.

ISBN:
9781783085071
9781783085071
Category:
Medical sociology
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
28-06-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Anthem Press

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