AAAD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Capital, Peer Education
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Why are sexual patterns this way: rural areas tensions over work. Attitudes about relationships: if they love you, they will support you. South africa - though the aids epidemic was very severe (4 million carried hiv virus in 2000) the government and media largely ignored the subject, even doctors attributed deaths to other causes. In 2002 the south african government began to shift its aids policies. In 2004 the ministry of health launched a program to make arv drugs available to all south africans with. Sends generals to cuba for training, in cuba all of these generals are tested for hiv and more than half come back positive. Aids hits south africa in the 2000"s, much later than uganda. South africa tries to respond to the epidemic with: Post-apartheid economic inequality was a key component. Mbeki"s criticism of the global aid industry. Things that increased hiv risk: gender and economic inequalities, domestic violence, health care access, education access.