Aids Intimacy And Care In Rural Kwazulu Natal

Download or read book AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal written by Patricia C. Henderson and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.