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AIDS and Men : Taking Risks or Taking Responsibility?

Name: AIDS and Men : Taking Risks or Taking Responsibility?
Author: Martin Foreman
ISBN: 9781856497442

by Martin Foreman

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Overview

Men undoubtedly take risks in relation to HIV. Whether or not they should also take responsibility for transmission of the virus, and how they can do so, are questions that cannot be easily resolved. The first section of this book examines the relationship between men's actions and AIDS worldwide, the impact of those actions on men and women, and initiatives designed to help men protect themselves and their partners. The second section, written by journalists from eleven countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, illustrates many different aspects of that relationship--from machismo in Mexico to drug injection in Russia, from men in prison in Brazil to men living with HIV in Thailand, from men as fathers in the Ivory Coast to men who have sex with men in Kenya.

About the Author, Martin Foreman

Martin Foreman is Director of the Panos AIDS Program.

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Arguing that the global AIDS epidemic is basically driven by men because they have more opportunity to contract and transmit HIV, they typically determine the circumstances of intercourse, and they often refuse to protect themselves and their partners, the authors present reports from eleven countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe to illustrate aspects of the problem and the potential for solutions. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.