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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"AIDS crisis"”.
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Cultural and Political Geographies of the AIDS Crisis in Ireland
… of the cultural and political performances of AIDS in Ireland. It takes, in particular, an institutional/ organisational approach to focus on the practices of the state and non-state sector and their interaction with the ‘AIDS’ body through two embodied practices; AIDS Quilting and blood …
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An African city and the modern plague: transformations in governance at the moment of Mbabane's HIV & AIDS crisis
… of city officials to govern the city during crisis through ‘incremental bricolage' – a term used to define the governance processes that emerged in a complex urban setting amid a crisis. This term describes the provisional, collaborative, and collective decision-making across institutional …
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Life sustaining responses and everyday care work during the HIV/AIDS and Covid-19 crises in Cape Town, South Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed a profound crisis of social reproduction in South Africa, revealing the fragility of household and community capacities to absorb care responsibilities amidst longstanding inequality and gaps in state social protection. In Cape Town, neighbourhood-based Community …
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Alcohol use and unsafe sex practices among students (17-25 year olds) at the University of the Western Cape
… in sexual practices in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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'You must tune your TB programme well...' : integrating TB, HIV and ARV care in Cape Town primary care setting
… that have arisen within the South African HIV/AIDS crisis: the prevalent HIV and tubertulosis (TB) co-epidemic, the concern that antiretroviral (ARV) provision might compromise the existing TB control programme, and that the Western Cape's current limited vertical model of ARV roll-out will …
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Parental death and schooling outcomes in South Africa
The HIV/AIDS pandemic is leaving in its wake a generation of children who have lost parents, care-givers, and other loved ones to illness and death. One of the lasting effects of the HIV/AIDS crisis will be the impact it is having on the education of the generation of children now of school going …
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Culturally Appropriate Indian Applications of Marriage and Family Therapy Interventions Explored Through an HIV Example
… million people in India who are living with HIV/AIDS and many more are indirectly affected by the epidemic (families, children). Since HIV/AIDS is a growing problem, further research for prevention and treatment is needed. Family therapists possess an important role in the AIDS crisis given that …
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Destabilizing science from the right : the rhetoric of heterosexual victimage in the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS controversy
… discourse surrounding the 2008 WHO/UNAIDS controversy, which both preceded and followed the publication of an article in the U.K. newspaper The Independent. The article reported that the head of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS initiative admitted that the threat of an AIDS …
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The Rhetoric of Blame: A Rhetorical Framing Analysis of Othering and Blame in Historical Health Crises
… 1876, the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s – 1990s. Through this investigation, I demonstrate how the elements of othering and blame in these historic health crises consistently mirror the political rhetoric surrounding the current COVID-19 pandemic. I argue that the …
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Reconsidering Randy Shilts: examining the reportage of America's AIDS chronicler
… aspects of gay culture, and ultimately the AIDS crisis, to heterosexual audiences. Careful examination of the posthumous critique of Shilts' work - including his construction of Patient Zero - is undertaken. The study concludes that Shilts fully engaged a Lippmann-esque approach embodied in …
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From berdache to Two-Spirit & Gay [re]constructing American "indianness" in the post-apocalypse
… that was suffering the consequences of the AIDS crisis. The [gay] American Indian discourse found its cornerstone after publishing "Living the Spirit," the first anthology for and by gay American Indian writers. The nineties and early 2000s were prolific in terms of production and style, and …
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"Somos Parte de la Solución": Women Activists' Knowledge of Gendered Risk and Their Educational Responses to HIV/AIDS in the Peruvian Amazon
… are becoming increasingly prevalent, and where AIDS cases in women are on the rise. In recent years, HIV positive and sex worker women activists in Iquitos have made significant strides to respond to the AIDS crisis through social movement organizing and educational outreach. This dissertation …
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Infecting the Inanimate: Puppet Theatre Responds to Aids
… 1980s, the world became aware of a new pandemic, AIDS. Asfeelings of horror and fright captured the minds of many people, artists tried to addressthe issues underneath them. Theatrical performance became a prevalent way to expressthe frustration and despair about HIV/AIDS, and puppet theatre, in …
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HIV/AIDS education in Kenya: an evaluation of policy, provision and practice in secondary schools
One of the key responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis has been the provision of School- based HIV/AIDS education, to try and improve teenagers’ ability to make wise and sensible decisions regarding their behaviours. The interventions have been premised on links between education and behaviour, the …
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Into the Mainstream: Independent Film and Video Counterpublics and Television in Britain, 1974–1990
… identity and counter-history during the AIDS crisis. The thesis argues that during this period, independent film- and videomakers helped to transform television into a vital site of counterpublic discourse.
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The right, rights and the culture wars in the United States, 1981-1989
… between rights and education during the AIDS crisis. In doing so, it contributes to the still-growing historiography on both American conservatism and the culture wars. Firstly, it adds shades of nuance to the literature on the American right, which has, until recently, posited the …
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Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher’s Britain
… electronic acts during the early years of the AIDS crisis and the enactment of Section 28. In doing so, this thesis brings into academic debate a significant aspect of post-war queer British cultural history hitherto overlooked in existing scholarship.<p></p>
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Crossing the Line: Censorship, Borders, and the Queer Poetics of Disclosure in English-Canadian Writing, 1967-2000
… of blood and border crossings during the HIV/AIDS crisis in order to draw out the implications of settler-colonial sexual censorship just before the Supreme Court’s ruling in 2000.
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Alien Sex Club: Educating audiences about continuing rates of HIV transmission using art and design
… developed during the earlier part of the AIDS crisis by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Today however, it is acknowledged that HIV is an interconnected web of problems that should be represented in a holistic way. Rates of HIV transmission are increasing among gay men in the West. …
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The challenge of HIV and AIDS to the church from ethical-theological and biblical perspectives
In this study we address the crisis of AIDS as it continues to be a great challenge to Christians everywhere. How should we think, speak, and act as Christians, after you have discovered that your spouse, or your child, or a brother or sister or father or mother is infected with HIV? What …
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