Glenford Howe (ed.)
Cobley (ed.)
Glenford D. Howe
Alan Gregor. Cobley
Kingston, Jamaica
University of the West Indies Press
The Caribbean AIDS epidemic
2000
9789766400880
9766400881
263 pages
Medical Studies
AIDS (Disease) - Caribbean Area.
AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects - Caribbean Area.
| Contents | 8 |
| List of Tables | 10 |
| List of Figures | 10 |
| Abbreviations | 12 |
| Foreword | 14 |
| Preface and Acknowledgments | 16 |
| Introduction | 17 |
| 1. An Overview of the AIDS/HIV/STD Situation in the Caribbean | 24 |
| 2. Social Science Approaches to Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Caribbean | 45 |
| 3. Press and Public Reactions to HIV/AIDS in Barbados since 1984 | 65 |
| 4. Regional Policies in Relation tot he HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Commonwealth Caribbean | 80 |
| 5. AIDS, NGOs and Youth in St Vincent and the Grenadines | 94 |
| 6. Caribbean Music and the Discourses on AIDS | 102 |
| 7. HIV/AIDS Research in Trinidad and Tobago | 112 |
| 8. Experiences from the Teaching of AIDS Prevention to Preteens in Trinidad | 133 |
| 9. The Reproductive Health Challenge | 145 |
| 10. HIV/AIDS in the Workplace | 162 |
| 11. Legal and Ethical Dimensions of HIV/AIDS | 174 |
| 12. The Psychosocial Dynamics of the AIDS Epidemic in the Caribbean | 209 |
| 13. Treatment and Care of AIDS Patients in a Hospital Setting | 225 |
| 14. The Need for Home-based Care of Persons with HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean | 237 |
| 15. AIDS in Haiti 1980-96 | 249 |
| Bibliography | 266 |
| Contributors | 279 |
| Index | 282 |