Resilience and contagion : invoking human rights in African HIV advocacy / Invoking human rights in African HIV advocacy

Resilience and contagion : invoking human rights in African HIV advocacy /

"HIV represents not only an unprecedented pandemic but also a site of civil society innovation. In the midst of devastation, activists in sub-Saharan Africa are progressing from traditional forms of health advocacy to strategies that engage human rights principles, techniques, and language. Emp...

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Main Author: Kenyon, Kristi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2017.
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in gender, sexuality, and social justice in the global south ; 2.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
HIV infections > Social aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Patient advocacy > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
AIDS (Disease) > Patients > Services for > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
HIV-positive persons > Services for > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Human rights > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Civil society > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
HIV Infections > ethnology.
Human Rights.
Patient Advocacy > trends.
Patient Rights > trends.
Global Health.
History, 21st Century.
Sida > Afrique subsaharienne.
Défense des droits économiques et sociaux > Afrique subsaharienne.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Afrique subsaharienne.
HIV/AIDS.
STDs.
HIV-positive people.
Human rights.
Africa South of the Sahara.
Table of Contents:
  • Contagious discourse : how rights spread to health
  • Strength and resilience : choosing rights
  • Mixed messages : using rights alongside other frames
  • Resisting rights-ification : avoiding or limiting rights
  • Drawing comparisons.

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