African Women’s Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/ AIDS: Communication Perspectives and Promises

African Women’s Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS examines the biomedical, socio-cultural, economic, legal/political, and educational aspects faced by real women in Africa, at the same time offering areas of hope in terms of communication for development case studies and role models. Based on the author’s hands-on experience working in West Africa with a number of HIV/AIDS and media organizations, it is reader/researcher friendly, providing more than 800 references and helpful appendices with some 900 acronyms, contact data for 450+ African HIV/AIDS-related organizations, African terms, websites, African embassies and liaisons, media, billboards, African AIDS-related films, and much more.

ISBN: 978-1-4039-8405-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year of Publication: 2008