Steady with custom: Mediating HIV prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea

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dc.contributor.authorLepani, Katherine
dc.contributor.editorHerring, D. A.
dc.contributor.editorSwedlund, A. C.
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:32:41Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.updated2020-11-22T07:21:59Z
dc.description.abstractBiomedicine and epidemiology have made possible an understanding of HIV pathology and the way the virus damages the human immune system to the extent that infected bodies eventually die from the complications of AIDS. But these specialized fields of knowledge have been unable to prevent the persistent spread of HIV throughout the world. Three decades since the virus was first isolated and named, the magnitude of HIV represents the most serious public health issue confronting the world today. In 2007 there were an estimated 2.7 million new cases of HIV infection, 33 million people living with the virus, and 2 million AIDS deaths (UNAIDS 2008: 16). As the epigraph to this chapter suggests, the pandemic is modeled statistically like a ticking time bomb threatening to decimate even out-of-the-way places such as the Trobriand Islands, a group of small coral atolls in the Solomon Sea off the east coast of mainland Papua New Guinea (PNG), with a population of thirty thousand people.
dc.identifier.isbn9781847885487
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/55873
dc.publisherBerg Publishers
dc.relation.ispartofPlagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present
dc.relation.isversionof1st Edition
dc.titleSteady with custom: Mediating HIV prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea
dc.typeBook chapter
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage322
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationOxford
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage305
local.contributor.affiliationLepani, Katherine, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu3925690@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidLepani, Katherine, u3925690
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropology
local.identifier.ariespublicationu1408929xPUB343
local.identifier.doi/10.5040/9781474215343.ch-017
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu1408929
local.type.statusPublished Version

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