The Deep South has seen a 36 percent increase in AIDS cases while the rest of the nation has seen a 2 percent decline. Many of the underlying reasons for the disease's continued spread in the region-ignorance about HIV, reluctance to get tested, non-adherence to treatment protocols, resistance to behavioural changes-remain unaddressed by policymakers. In this extensively revised second edition, Kathryn Whetten and Brian Wells Pence present a rich discussion of twenty-five ethnographic life stories of people living with HIV in the South. Most importantly, they incorporate research from their recent quantitative study, Coping with HIV/AIDS in the Southeast (CHASE), which includes 611 HIV-positive patients from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana. This new edition continues to bring the participants' voices to life while highlighting how the CHASE study confirmed many of the themes that originally emerged from the life histories. This is the first cohesive compilation of up-to-date evidence on the unique and difficult aspects of living with HIV in the Deep South.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13
9780813554525
eBay Product ID (ePID)
148615961
Product Key Features
Author
Brian Wells Pence, Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein
Publication Name
You're the First One I've Told: the Faces of Hiv in the Deep South
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Healthcare System
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein, Brian Wells Pence
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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