Women are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS. By focusing on the pandemic at its epicentre in Southern Africa, this book explores the gendered power inequalities driving women's vulnerability to HIV and provides suggestions of how to individually and collectively address women's oppression.

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VICCI TALLIS Programme Manager for the HIV and AIDS Unit at the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa. She has worked in the area of gender, HIV and AIDS in South and Southern Africa for the past 23 years and was previously employed for the Association for Women's Rights in Development.

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Book Title: Feminisms, HIV and AIDS
Book Subtitle: Subverting Power, Reducing Vulnerability
Authors: Vicci Tallis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137005793
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34880-6Published: 30 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34583-0Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00579-3Published: 30 July 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 225
Topics: International Relations, Development Studies, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Political Science, Gender Studies, Human Rights

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