Gender and HIV in South Africa Advancing Women's Health and Capabilities /

• Main Author: Sprague, Courtenay (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Global Research in Gender, Sexuality and Health,
• Subjects: Social justice.; Human rights.; Economic development.; Sociology.; Africa-Politics and government.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Development and Health.; Gender Studies.; African Politics.

This book addresses the ongoing problem of HIV in black South African women as a health inequity. Importantly, it argues that this urgent problem of justice is changeable. Sprague uses the capabilities approach to bring a theory of health justice, together with multiple sources of evidence, to inves...