Families and Communities Responding to AIDS (Social Aspects of Aids Series)

All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious illnesses such as HIV and AIDS. Yet families and communities can also stigmatize their members, leaving people to die in the most appalling conditions. This book looks at the diversity of family and community responses to HIV and AIDS. By examining contexts as diverse as nuclear, extended and refugee family households, and gay community networks and structures, it offers important insight into the factors which lead to positive responses and those which trigger negative ones. Introduction / Peter Aggleton, Graham Hart -- Getting On With Life: The Experience Of Families Of Children With Hiv Infection / Mary Boulton, Katy Pepper, Sam Walters, Eddy Beck, David Miller -- African Refugee Children And Hiv/aids In London / Martha Chinouya-mudari, Margaret O'brien -- Solidarity And Stress: Gender And Local Mobilization In Tanzania And Zambia / Janet M. Bujra, Carolyn Baylies -- Gender, Disclosure, Care And Decision Making In Kwazulu-natal, South Africa / Gill Seidel, Rosalind Coleman -- Narratives Of Care, Love And Commitment: Aids/hiv And Non-heterosexual Family Formations / Brian Heaphy, Jeffrey Weeks, Catherine Donovan -- Everyone On The Scene Is So Cliquey / Paul Flowers, Graham Hart -- Coming Together: Social Networks Of Gay Men And Hiv Prevention / Kevin Eisenstadt, Philip Gatter -- Observing The Rules: An Ethnographic Study Of London's Cottages And Cruising Areas / Peter Keogh, Paul Holland -- Sydney Gay Men's Agreements About Sex / Paul Van De Ven, Judy French, June Crawford, Susan Kippax -- Young Gay Men And Hiv Risk / Danielle Campbell, Paul Van De Ven, Garrett Prestage, June Crawford, Susan Kippax -- A New Method Of Peer-led Hiv Prevention With Gay And Bisexual Men / Jonathan Shepherd, Glenn Turner, Katherine Weare -- Sexual Risk Taking And Hiv Testing: A Qualitative Investigation / Susan Beardsell -- Treatment Education: A Multidisciplinary Challenge / Will Anderson, Peter Weatherburn. Edited By Peter Aggleton, Graham Hart And Peter Davies. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. By examining contexts as diverse as nuclear, extended and refugee family households and gay community networks, this book offers insight into the factors which lead to positive responses to AIDS, and those which trigger negative ones. While HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom has largely affected gay men and injecting drug users, children have constituted a small but distinct group of cases since the beginning of the epidemic.