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Socializing the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention

By Niamh Stephenson , Susan Kippax

Book information

Publisher
Anthem Press
Year
2016
ISBN
1783085045, 9781783085040
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1289578 bytes)
Series
Anthem Health and Society Series
Pages
xiv+180\195
Time added
2018-06-17 16:28:17
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Description

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.

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