Challenges for Recovery in the Face of a Sustained HIV/AIDS Crisis and Structural Mismanagement: Lessons from Swaziland

Towards a Theology of HIV/AIDS

Verbum et Ecclesia ◽

10.4102/ve.v27i1.148 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 265-290 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

A Van Wyngaard

Keyword(s):

Aids Pandemic ◽

Ideal Situation ◽

Aids Crisis ◽

The Face ◽

The Church ◽

Hiv Aids

In a world which is slowly but surely being devastated by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the church needs to get involved in the fight against this disease. In many places the church has conveniently denied that HIV/AIDS has anything to do with them. In this paper the author argues for the necessity of thinking theologically about the reality of HIV/AIDS, indicating that HIV/AIDS is not merely a matter of “sinners” becoming infected with a virus, but that certain circumstances are conducive towards the spreading of HIV/AIDS which need to be addressed if an impact is to be made on the spreading of the virus. Although many non-religious organisations are fighting this disease, the church is in an ideal situation to assist these bodies as it is already grounded within communities and already have integrity amongst a large part of the population. However, to achieve this goal the churches must be transformed in the face of the HIV/AIDS crisis, in order that they themselves may become a force for transformation – bringing healing, hope, and accompaniment to all infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS.

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Bugs: Rethinking the History of Computing

Communication Culture and Critique ◽

10.1093/ccc/tcz039 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 476-498 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cait McKinney ◽

Dylan Mulvin

Keyword(s):

Computer Networks ◽

Networked Systems ◽

History Of Computing ◽

Loss Of Life ◽

Public Figures ◽

Aids Crisis ◽

The Face ◽

History Of ◽

Global North ◽

Hiv Aids

Abstract This paper argues that scholars of computing, networks, and infrastructures must reckon with the inseparability of “viral” discourses in the 1990s. This co-assembled history documents the reliance on viral analogies and explanations honed in the HIV/AIDS crisis and its massive loss of life, widespread institutional neglect, and comprehensive technological failures. As the 1990s marked a period of intense domestication of computing technologies in the global North, we document how public figures, computer experts, activists, academics, and artists used the intertwined discourses surrounding HIV and new computer technologies to explicate the risks of vulnerability in complex, networked systems. The efficacy of HIV as an analogy is visible in the circulation of viral concepts, fears surrounding interdependence, and emergent descriptions of precarity in the face of a widespread “infrastructure crisis.” Through an analysis of this decade, we show how HIV/AIDS discourses indelibly marked the domestication of computing, computer networks, and nested, digitized infrastructures.

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Confronting the Deadly HIV/AIDS Crisis Among Our Nation's Youths

PsycCRITIQUES ◽

10.1037/a0007124 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 52 (14) ◽

Author(s):

John S. Wodarski

Keyword(s):

Aids Crisis ◽

Hiv Aids

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Organising care and community in the era of the ‘gay disease’: Gay community responses to HIV/AIDS and the production of differentiated care geographies in Vancouver

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098020984908 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 004209802098490

Author(s):

John Paul Catungal ◽

Benjamin Klassen ◽

Robert Ablenas ◽

Sandy Lambert ◽

Sarah Chown ◽

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Keyword(s):

Urban Politics ◽

Systems Of Care ◽

The West ◽

Gay Community ◽

Gendered Politics ◽

Aids Crisis ◽

Social Geographies ◽

Long Term Survivors ◽

Differentiated Care ◽

Hiv Aids

Scholarship on the place of the HIV/AIDS crisis in urban geographies of sexual minority activism has powerfully insisted on the importance of community organising as a response to state and societal failures and to their homophobic, AIDS phobic and morally conservative underpinnings. This paper extends this scholarship by examining the urban social geographies of exclusion produced by such community organising efforts. It draws on the perspectives of long-term survivors of HIV/AIDS (LTS) in Vancouver to highlight the differentiated care geographies of HIV/AIDS that resulted from the racialised, classed and gendered politics and urban imaginations enacted by gay and allied HIV/AIDS organising. Though LTS networks, spaces and politics of care and community were more extended than Vancouver’s gay community during the 1980s and 1990s, the centring of the West End gay village in many community-led responses to HIV/AIDS resulted in LTS geographies outside the West End being excluded from important systems of care and community. LTS narratives of the city at the time of the ‘gay disease’ thus tell an urban politics of sexual and health activisms as shaped not only by processes of heteronormativity and homophobia but also of racially, colonially and class-inflected homonormative urban imaginaries.

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The nutritional role of indigenous foods in mitigating the HIV/AIDS crisis in West and Central Africa

International Forestry Review ◽

10.1505/ifor.6.2.149.38392 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 149-160 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

E. Kengni ◽

C.M.F. Mbofung ◽

M.F. Tchouanguep ◽

Z. Tchoundjeu

Keyword(s):

Central Africa ◽

Aids Crisis ◽

West And Central Africa ◽

Indigenous Foods ◽

Hiv Aids

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A Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis Among Blacks in the United States, 1981–2009

American Journal of Public Health ◽

10.2105/ajph.2008.157958 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 99 (S2) ◽

pp. S351-S359 ◽

Cited By ~ 42

Author(s):

Madeline Y. Sutton ◽

Rhondette L. Jones ◽

Richard J. Wolitski ◽

Janet C. Cleveland ◽

Hazel D. Dean ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Disease Control ◽

The United States ◽

Aids Crisis ◽

Centers For Disease Control ◽

Hiv Aids

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Educating the Heart: Fostering Hope Through Theatre in the AIDS Crisis in South Africa

Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings ◽

10.24908/iqurcp.8052 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Meghan Ward

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

International Development ◽

Healing Process ◽

Development Theory ◽

People Living With Hiv ◽

Aids Crisis ◽

Theatrical Representation ◽

Living With Hiv ◽

International Development Studies ◽

Hiv Aids

With approximately 5.3 million people living with HIV/AIDS, South Africa has the highest HIV prevalence rate in the world. HIV tends to strike the most vulnerable people in society, and is often associated with high risk behaviours, which inevitably leads to stigmatization. Through an integration of theatre and development theory, I propose to investigate the potential of using theatre as a community event that raises awareness of collective issues and that offers new hope to people living with HIV. I suggest that theatre can educate the heart and put a human face on HIV/AIDS, thus catalyzing a healing process at the community level. By targeting township youth, those who are currently driving the virus, an interactive theatre style, such as participatory methodology, can effectively move beyond didactic education. In participatory theatre, the target group is incorporated into the theatrical representation of their circumstances through the performance of personal testimonies associated with HIV. Here, the power of theatre lies in its ability to produce individual reactions in the audience, which ultimately result in a collective experience and elevated consciousness through the discussion that ensues. The community is thus empowered to engage in a new ap proach to HIV/AIDS. Can such a performance prevent further infections by exposing the consequences and realities of living with AIDS? While a testcase would be ideal in the affirmation of these ideas, I hope to bring a new approach to community theatre through a combination of theories from both theatre and international development studies.

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Pose and HIV/AIDS

TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly ◽

10.1215/23289252-8665285 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 615-624

Author(s):

Laura Stamm

Keyword(s):

Women Of Color ◽

Media Representations ◽

People Of Color ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Trans People ◽

Aids Crisis ◽

Trans Women ◽

The Cost ◽

Living With Hiv ◽

Hiv Aids

Abstract This article examines how the television series Pose (2018–) represents queer and trans people of color living with HIV/AIDS at the height of the crisis in 1987. While the series portrays an important part of transgender history, it also positions the AIDS crisis as something that is done and part of America's past. Despite the fact that rates of HIV infection remain at epidemic rates for trans women of color, Pose, like many other mainstream media representations, suggests that the AIDS crisis ended in 1995. The series brings trans women of color's experiences to a record number of viewers, but that representation comes with a certain cost—the cost of historicization.

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