Description

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An estimated 17 million people are infected with HIV today, and it is estimated that in Africa alone there will be at least 70 million people infected in the next 25 years. This global pandemic has already had a profound impact economically and socially in terms of expensive research, care centers, and immeasurable loss of many of the world's most talented people. Sexual relations, health care of non-infected individuals, family relations, and other social institutions have been significantly marked by this elusive and to date life-threatening phenomenon. Topics range from breastfeeding to condom use, from apathetic governments to immigration policy. Dr. Feldman and his contributors evaluate various policies that have been proposed or adopted on four continents and provide a needed perspective on planetary problems.

About the Author

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DOUGLAS A. FELDMAN is a Medical Anthropologist and President of D. A. Feldman & Associates, a behavioral and program evaluation organization in Hollywood, Florida. He is co-editor of The Social Dimensions of AIDS (Praeger, 1986) and editor of Culture and AIDS (Praeger, 1990). Dr. Feldman has conducted AIDS social research on adolescents in Zambia, persons with AIDS in Rwanda, dentists in Florida, and gay men in New York and Florida . He founded the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group of the Society for Medical Anthropology and co-founded the American Anthropological Association's Task Force on AIDS.