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Author:

Dickinson, David, 1963-

Title:

Changing the course of AIDS : peer education in South Africa and its lessons for the global crisis / David Dickinson ; foreword by Charles Deutsch.

Publisher:

ILR Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xiii, 252 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

AIDS (Disease)--South Africa.
Peer counseling--South Africa.
Change (Psychology)--Health aspects--South Africa.
Occupational health services--South Africa.
Health education--South Africa.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control--South Africa.
Health Education--South Africa.
Occupational Health Services--South Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"Empowered with information I have influenced a lot of people" : the quest for behavioral change -- "People are dying, but they don't listen when we tell them" : the corporate response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa -- "For the love of people" : peer education as a response from below -- Backstage social divisions -- Slipping out of order -- To speak with one voice -- Social space, leadership, and action : peer education and behavioral change.

Series:

The culture and politics of health care work.

ISBN:

080144831X (cloth)
9780801448317 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)319690969

LCCN:

2009016724

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)