TY - BOOK ID - 58467388 TI - Children as Caregivers : The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia PY - 2017 SN - 9780813588063 9780813588056 0813588065 9780813588049 9780813588032 0813588057 0813588049 0813588030 PB - New Brunswick Rutgers University Press DB - UniCat KW - Tuberculosis KW - HIV-positive persons KW - AIDS (Disease) KW - Child caregivers KW - Consumption (Disease) KW - Lungs KW - Phthisis KW - Pulmonary tuberculosis KW - TB (Disease) KW - Chest KW - Mycobacterial diseases KW - Mycobacterium tuberculosis KW - HIV-infected persons KW - HIV infections KW - HIV patients KW - HIV-sero-positive persons KW - HIV-seropositive persons KW - People living with HIV/AIDS KW - Positive persons, HIV KW - -Sero-positive persons, HIV KW - -Seropositive persons, HIV KW - -Patients KW - Acquired immune deficiency syndrome KW - Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome KW - Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome KW - Immunological deficiency syndromes KW - Virus-induced immunosuppression KW - Children as caregivers KW - Caregivers KW - Patients KW - Home care KW - Diseases KW - HIV, aids, guardians, legal guardian, children, childhood, child, childhood studies, zambia, africa, african children, ill, illness, caregiver, caregiving, health, public policy, health policy, public health, family, family illness. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:58467388 AB - In Zambia, due to the rise of tuberculosis and the closely connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. Children as Caregivers examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realize that children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill and demonstrates why understanding children's care is crucial for global health policy. Using ethnographic methods, and listening to the voices of the young as well as adults, Jean Hunleth makes the caregiving work of children visible. She shows how children actively seek to "get closer" to ill guardians by providing good care. Both children and ill adults define good care as attentiveness of the young to adults' physical needs, the ability to carry out treatment and medication programs in the home, and above all, the need to maintain physical closeness and proximity. Children understand that losing their guardians will not only be emotionally devastating, but that such loss is likely to set them adrift in Zambian society, where education and advancement depend on maintaining familial, reciprocal relationships. View a gallery of images from the book (https://www.flickr.com/photos/childrenascaregivers) ER -