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- Review of factors currently shaping young people’s vulnerability, risk and resilience in an HIV hot spot
- Introduces the critical role of dignity and humiliation in health seeking and risky behaviour
- Demonstrates the heterogeneity and patterns of vulnerability relevant to today’s slum environment for different social groups
- Improves understanding of the holistic nature of wellbeing in the urban slum
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The work shows that young people in the urban slum dignify their world and, in doing so, establish priorities and draw on a set of references oftentimes intelligible to them alone. Moreover, humiliation, as an interpersonal event, adds to a sense of vulnerability and lies closely behind choices directly affecting personal health and livelihood. Thus, dignity and humiliation are shown for the first time to have a critical role in health seeking and risky behavior related to HIV, and this is an area in great need of further research.
The crucial focus of this work is further emphasized by the rapid growth of urban slums, and high rates of HIV among both slum dwellers and young people, whocontinue to bear the brunt of the AIDS epidemic, thirty years on.
This comprehensive literature review provides a compelling argument that the time is right to further explore the nexus of risk and resilience from a people-centered perspective. Fresh insight is critical to reach the goal of ending AIDS by 2030.
Authors and Affiliations
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James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
Gary Jones
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: HIV and Young People
Book Subtitle: Risk and Resilience in the Urban Slum
Authors: Gary Jones
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26814-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26813-2Published: 10 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26814-9Published: 30 November 2015
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 120
Topics: Infectious Diseases, Social Structure, Social Inequality