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oapen-20.500.12657-314902021-11-04T14:07:50Z Children As Caregivers Hunleth, Jean Anthropology Child HIV Kinship Lusaka Public health Tuberculosis Tuberculosis management Zambia The global public health community has focused care and funding on TB and HIV in Zambia, but adult policy-makers, doctors, and humanitarians often ignore children's perspectives as they confront infectious diseases. Well-intentioned practioners fail to realize how children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill. Using ethnographic methods, and listening to the voices of children as well as adults, Hunleth makes the caregiving work of children visible. Children actively seek to "get closer" to ill guardians by providing good care. Both children and ill adults define good care as children's attentiveness to adults' physical needs, their ability to carry out treatment and medication programs in the home, and above all, the need to maintain physical closeness and proximity. 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-02-25 03:00:26 2020-04-01T13:37:15Z 2020-04-01T13:37:15Z 2017-04-28 book 627650 OCN: 973140717 9780813588063 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31490 eng Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies application/pdf n/a 627650.pdf Rutgers University Press 10.26530/oapen_627650 100270 10.26530/oapen_627650 111d1c48-fc70-44ba-97fa-39be459ee343 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780813588063 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) New Brunswick 100270 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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The global public health community has focused care and funding on TB and HIV in Zambia, but adult policy-makers, doctors, and humanitarians often ignore children's perspectives as they confront infectious diseases. Well-intentioned practioners fail to realize how children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill. Using ethnographic methods, and listening to the voices of children as well as adults, Hunleth makes the caregiving work of children visible. Children actively seek to "get closer" to ill guardians by providing good care. Both children and ill adults define good care as children's attentiveness to adults' physical needs, their ability to carry out treatment and medication programs in the home, and above all, the need to maintain physical closeness and proximity.
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