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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Susanna W. GrannisPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.247kg ISBN: 9780745331539ISBN 10: 074533153 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 07 October 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction 1. Framing the Issues 2. One Continent, Five Countries, and Five Different Epidemics 3. Girls and Women, Special Vulnerabilities 4. Life Sustainer, ARV Treatment 5. Prevention: The Long-term Goal 6. Poverty and Children’s Wellbeing 7. Education: A Basic Human Right 8. I Feel It in My Heart 9. Supporting Children 10. A Matter of Money and Intention 11. Hope and/or Despair Notes IndexReviewsThis is an unsentimental and realistic assessment of the desperate situation of children in sub-Saharan Africa affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Thus when the author says there is hope despite the hopelessness we must believe her. We are indebted to Susanna Grannis for pointing to the light at the end of the tunnel. -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Susanna Grannis' book brings us up-to-date with how the HIV/AIDS epidemic is affecting Africa's children. The stigma attached to the disease may be diminishing, but children's grief at their parent's death remains raw. It's a sensitive and informative book. -- Emma Guest, author Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis (Pluto, 2003) 'This is an unsentimental and realistic assessment of the desperate situation of children in sub-Saharan Africa affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Thus when the author says there is hope despite the hopelessness we must believe her. We are indebted to Susanna Grannis for pointing to the light at the end of the tunnel. -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Susanna Grannis' book brings us up-to-date with how the HIV/AIDS epidemic is affecting Africa's children. The stigma attached to the disease may be diminishing, but children's grief at their parent's death remains raw. It's a sensitive and informative book. -- Emma Guest, author Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis (Pluto, 2003) Author InformationSusanna W. Grannis founded and led, until 2010, CHABHA, Children Affected by HIV/AIDS. She was Professor and Dean at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Queens College - CUNY, and at the Bank Street College of Education. She is the author of Hope Amidst Despair (Pluto, 2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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