AIDS Development: A study of why South Africans don't seem to care about AIDS - Softcover

Xhalabile, Calvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3846594105 ISBN 13: 9783846594100

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

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Development is often looked upon in economical terms. Hence research tries to investigate how one country can produce or sell more in order to increase its GDP and thereby realize development. My work does not exclude these considerations but focuses on health as an important aspect of development. I investigate why South Africans would place their lives at risk with full knowledge of AIDS by not using freely available protection when having sex. Once an individual is lost to AIDS South Africa does not just loose an income earner to a family but years of experience, skills and that individual’s personal networks. I suggest that the solution is not in the problem. I hypothesize that there is a historical explanation to the problem. The solution is in looking at the governing dynamics of the individual South African's unmet social needs and what informs his or her behavior. A careful historical investigation of politics, economics and private cultural behavior offers an insight on how AIDS should be approached in South Africa. In these communities the long term fear of dying from AIDS is less threatening than the immediate socio-economical threats.

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Calvin Xhalabile was born in 1974 in a slum township of South Africa. After graduating high school he enrolled at the Cape University of Technology studying Public Relations. Later he moved to Denmark and finished a BA in International Development and communication. Later he completed a Masters degree in Develpment Studies from Lund, Sweden.

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• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3846594105
• ISBN 13: 9783846594100
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 76
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