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Books. HIV/AIDS in South Africa - Abdool Karim S and Abdool Karim Q (eds)
The book comprises seven sections, the first of which describes the evolving epidemic, presents the numbers behind the epidemic, and captures the nature of the epidemic in one of the worst affected parts of the world. This is followed by a section on the science of the virus, covering its structure, and its diagnosis. HIV risk factors and prevention strategies, focal population groups and the impact of AIDS in all aspects of South African life are discussed in the next four sections. The final sections look at the treatment of HIV/AIDS, the politics of AIDS treatment, mathematical modelling to extrapolate the potential impact of AIDS treatment and finally a discussion of the future of AIDS in South Africa. This text has been written at an accessible level for the general public, undergraduate and postgraduate students, healthcare providers, researchers and policymakers in this field as well as international scholars studying AIDS in Africa.
The AIDS Pandemic: Impact on Science and Society - Kenneth H Mayer and HF Pizer (eds)
Novel perspectives are provided by a unique panel of internationally recognized expert who cover the unprecedented impact on AIDS on culture, demographics and politics around the world, including how it affected the world's economy, health sciences, epidemiology and public health. This important far-reaching analysis uses the lessons learned from a wide array of disciplines to help us understand the current status and evolution of the pandemic, as it continues to evolve. This book is indispensable for a professional audience from a wide range of backgrounds, including medicine, science, public health, the law, government, and business whose work interfaces with HIV/AIDS, as well as students in higher education.
Book by Dr Catherine Campbell: Letting Them Die - How HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Often Fail
Dr Campbell is a Reader at the London School of Economics and a Research Fellow at HIVAN, (the Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking, based at the University of Natal in Durban). The book's title is derived from South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys' comment that: "In the old South Africa we killed people. Now we're just letting them die." The book is an examination of the social constructs and unique contexts of sexuality, participation and social change, compiled through detailed study of the processes yielded by a large-scale participatory HIV/AIDS intervention strategy undertaken in Summertown, a small mining township in the South African province of Gauteng, over a three-year period during the late 1990s. In her observation of the process of the Summertown Project, which focused on limiting the spread of HIV through a multi-layered, well-resourced, community-led intervention programme and the promotion of partnerships and alliances between community stakeholders, Campbell led the documentation of responses from participants amongst four groups of people: migrant mineworkers, commercial sex-workers, young people and a diverse array of community stakeholders committed to implementing this complex and ambitious intervention programme. The book presents the history and goals of the Summertown Project, the theoretical framework within which the research was evaluated, the distillation of the documentation from the interviews and focus group sessions, and the consolidation of the findings into what manifestly emerged as a mobilisation strategy with "less than optimal results". The concluding chapter confronts these findings, and, drawing on social psychology, sociology, anthropology and social medicine, evaluates the elements and dynamics of power-bases inherent in the seen and unseen structures of impoverished communities struggling to address effects of the epidemic in South Africa. "Letting them die" is a forceful presentation of the earliest and most comprehensively researched critique of the participatory community development approach to HIV prevention. It also contains recommendations that reshape and invigorate the approach so as to promote health-enabling community contexts, and to strengthen social capital so that survivors of the epidemic might reconstruct their lives with some prospect of success. Published by The International African Institute in association with James Currey (Oxford) / Indiana University Press (Bloomington) / Double Storey Books (a Juta Company, Cape Town). 2003 The book is available at all leading bookstores in South Africa, including Adams Campus Bookshop at the University of Natal in Durban (Telephone 031- 261 2320), or can be ordered directly from the publisher, c/o Kathy Pittaway on the following email address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . To view the author's research profile and publications, visit the following webpage address: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/socialPsychology/whosWho/campbell.htm. Issued on behalf of Dr Catherine Campbell by: Contact: Judith King, Media and Communications Officer
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This definitive text covers all aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, from basic science to medicine, sociology, economics and politics. It has been written by a highly respected team of South African HIV experts and provides a thoroughly researched account of the epidemic in the region. 
The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS, has, and continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines it touches. 
A new book entitled "Letting them die - why HIV/AIDS intervention programmes fail", written by social psychologist Dr Catherine Campbell, addresses these questions.