AIDS, intimacy and care in rural KwaZulu-Natal

By Patricia C. Henderson

Subjects: HIV-positive persons, Sociology & anthropology, AIDS (Disease), Aids (disease), africa, Republic of South Africa, HIV / AIDS, Public health & preventive medicine

Description: This book describes how HIV/AIDS became part of the lives of the people of the mountainous Okhahlamba in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. Based on extensive research in the area between 2003 and 2006, the author shows what impact the disease had - and still does - for adults and children, and the different ways people tried to find answers to the devastating presence of HIV / AIDS. Henderson focuses on informal care by family members and volunteers at a time when anti-retroviral drugs were not yet available. She also shows what it meant to the community once the drugs became available.