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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