Gender issues are central to the causes and impact of the ongoing AIDS epidemic. The editors bring together cutting edge contemporary scholarship on gender and AIDS in one volume. They address questions related to gender and sexuality, how women and men live the epidemic differently and how such differences lead to different outcomes. The volume joins research on Africa, Asia and Latin America and illustrates how the epidemic has different gendered characteristics, causes and consequences in dif

First Author: Boesten, Jelke; Poku, Nana K.

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Gender and HIV/AIDS: Critical Perspectives from the Developing World (2009)

Page Reference: 29-46

ISBN: 9780754672692