Confronting the Challenge: Poverty, Gender and HIV in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9783039119387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 193 str.

Senghor, Jeggan C.

Opis

This book examines some of the ways in which HIV/AIDS is affecting South African society. Catholic theological responses have focused extensively on the implications of HIV/AIDS for the area of sexual ethics. Although there are important questions to be answered here, many more fundamental issues have been overlooked as a result. This book responds to the need within Catholic theology for a greater examination of the injustices associated with the AIDS pandemic. The author argues that the human rights challenges associated with poverty, gender discrimination, sexual violence and access to essential AIDS-related health care are a crucial feature of the crisis. The author turns to the social teaching of the Catholic Church for a fuller framework of analysis in this regard and provides a critical examination of that teaching s core concepts and principles. The work of leading international economists Amartya Sen and Muhammad Yunus is explored as a means of relating the principles of Catholic social teaching to the concrete social and economic realities that exacerbate this global pandemic."

Spis treści

Contents: Exploring the relationship between poverty, inequality and the spread of AIDS - Women, Gender and HIV - Rape and Sexual Violence in South Africa - The Problem of Accessing Antiretroviral Medication in South Africa - Ethical Implications of AIDS Vaccine Trials in South Africa - New Ways of Approaching the Challenge of Development and Poverty Reduction - An examination of the work of Amartya Sen and Muhammad Yunus - Catholic Social Teaching as a response to the AIDS Pandemic.

O autorze

Suzanne Mulligan lectures in the Department of Moral Theology at the Milltown Institute, Dublin. Between 2006 and 2008 she held the Finlay Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Theology, awarded by the Irish Province of the Jesuits. She is a graduate of the Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland.