North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS
Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South
Stephen J. Inrig
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 12/2011
Pages: 224
Subject: Medical, Social Science, History
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807869154
DESCRIPTION
Drawing on epidemiological, archival, and oral history sources, Inrig probes the social determinants of health that put poor, rural, and minority communities at greater risk of HIV infection in the American South. He also examines the difficulties that health workers and AIDS organizations faced in reaching those communities, especially in the early years of the epidemic. His analysis provides an important counterweight to most accounts of the early history of the disease, which focus on urban areas and the spread of AIDS in the gay community. As one of the first historical studies of AIDS in a southern state, North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS provides powerful insight into the forces and factors that have made AIDS such an intractable health problem in the American South and the greater United States.