Abstract Background End of life (EoL) care in sub-Saharan Africa still lacks the sound
evidence-base needed for the development of effective, appropriate service provision. It is …

Emerging research within health geography and related fields is attending to the social
dimensions of human health. Notwithstanding these contributions, health geography has …

African mourning of loss of lives in South Africa has been shaped by discursive practices of
both traditional African cultures and the sociopolitical developments under apartheid and in …

The chapter begins with a discussion of the empirical evidence for the extent of AIDS origin
conspiracy beliefs in the United States and South Africa (the only countries for which survey …

This paper uses multivariate logistic regressions to explore:(1) potential socio-economic,
cultural, psychological and political determinants of AIDS conspiracy beliefs among young …

The global HIV/AIDS scientific community has begun to hail the dawn of 'the End of
AIDS'with widespread anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and dramatic declines in AIDS-related …

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) originated from cross‐species transmission of the
simian immunodeficiency virus from primates to humans. Yet a significant minority of people …

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This paper describes men's experiences of disclosing their HIV status, arguing that
disclosure restored their social respect, which was previously undermined by an illness from …

Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. In
States of Disease, Brian King advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate …