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Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa
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ISBN: 1282360779 9786612360770 0520942655 9780520942653 0520255534 0520255526 9780520255524 9780520255531 9781282360778 6612360771 Year: 2008 Volume: 20 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990's in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined differences in the structure of sexual networks-rather than changes in individual behavior-were responsible for these radical differences in HIV prevalence. Incorporating such factors as property, mobility, social status, and political authority into our understanding of AIDS transmission, Thornton's analysis also suggests new avenues for fighting the disease worldwide.


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Assessment of the AHRQ patient safety initiative : final report : evaluation report IV
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ISBN: 083304544X 083304480X 9780833045447 9780833044808 Year: 2008 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Rand Corporation

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