HIV and Young People Risk and Resilience in the Urban Slum /

• Main Author: Jones, Gary (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Infectious diseases.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

Revisiting the thinking on vulnerability to HIV and risk of infection, this book provides better understanding by considering the risk of HIV infection alongside notions of personal and collective resilience, dignity and humiliation. The work shows that young people in the urban slum dignify their w...