Children As Caregivers: The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia

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Title

Children As Caregivers: The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia

Subject

Public health

Description

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.

Creator

Hunleth, Jean

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31738

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Date

2017

Contributor

Sukma Kartikasari

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

DOI: 10.26530/oapen_627650
ISBN: 9780813588063

Coverage

Public Health

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