TY  - BOOK
AU  - Inrig,Stephen
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - North Carolina & the problem of AIDS: advocacy, politics, & race in the South 
AV  - RA643.84.N8 I57 2011eb
U1  - 362.196/9792009756 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - AIDS (Disease)
KW  - North Carolina
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Southern States
KW  - African American gays
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-201) and index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2012; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adolescents living with the virus. Moreover, the epidemic disproportionately affects African American communities across the region. Using the history of HIV in North Carolina as a case study, Stephen Inrig examines the rise of AIDS in the South in the period from the early spread and discovery of the disease through the late nineties. 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"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10521888
ER  -