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2009 Publications

Journal Articles

Chapters in Books

  • Campbell, C. and Gibbs, A. (2009). Stigma, Gender and HIV: Case studies of inter-sectionality. In Boesten, J. and Poku, N. eds., Gender and AIDS. Ashgate Press MacMillan, London. The chapter is available at LSE e-prints here.
  • Campbell, C., Nair, Y., Maimane, S., Gibbs, A. (2009). Strengthening community responses to AIDS: possibilities and challenges (pp.221-236). In Rohleder, P.; Swartz, L.; Kalichman, S.C.; Simbayi, L.C. (Eds) HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 years on. Springer. Available here
  • Gibbs, A. (2009). The HIV Epidemic in South Africa (pp. 47-65). In: Mitchell, C. & Pithouse, K. (eds.) Teaching and HIV & AIDS; Johannesburg; Macmillan South Africa.
  • Gibbs, A. and Campbell, C. (2009). Gender and AIDS: Critical Perspectives from Developing Countries.The book outline can be viewed at the publisher's website here and the introductory chapter to Gender and AIDS which discusses all the chapters and sets the broader context of the book, written by Boesten and Poku, can be viewed here
  • Veenstra, N. and Whiteside, A, (2009). Fighting HIV/AIDS and the Future of Health Systems' in Kent Buse, Wolfgang Hein and Nick Drager (eds) Making Sense of Global Health Governance A Policy Perspective. Palgrave MacMillan Basingstoke, 2009. To view the book outline on publishers website, click here .

Working Papers

  • Thurlow, J., George, G. and Gow, J. (2009). HIV/AIDS, Growth and Poverty in KwaZulu-Natal and South Africa.Cape Town: Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town
  • Thurlow, J., George, G. and Gow, J. (2009). HIV/AIDS, Growth and Poverty in Kwazulu-Natal and South Africa - Integrating Firm-level Surveys with Demographic and economy-wide modeling. IFPRI Discussion Paper 00864.
  • Veenstra, N., Whiteside, A., Lalloo, D., and Gibbs, A., (2009). Unplanned ART treatment interruptions in Southern Africa: a literature review. Cape Town: Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town and HEARD University of KwaZulu-Natal Joint Working Paper No 247.
  • Whiteside, A. (2009). Is AIDS Exceptional, Working Paper 25 Commissioned by the aids2031 Programmatic Response Working Group, posted to www.aids2031.org.

Non-refereed Articles

Reports

Book Reviews

  • Whiteside, A. (2009). Book review of Robert J. Thornton, Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xxi + 282. £14.95. ISBN 978 0 520 2552 4. in Social History of Medicine 2009 22(1):183-184;
  • Whiteside, A. (2009). Foreword in Maclean, S., Brown, S. & Fourie, P. (eds) (2009) Health for Some: The Political Economy of Global Health Governance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Whiteside, A. (2009). Book review of Dead Aid, Global Public Health.

Awaiting Publication

  • Russell, S., Seeley, J. and Whiteside, A. (2009). Editorial for AIDSCare Special issue: Expanding antiretroviral therapy provision in resource-constrained settings: social processes and their policy challenges.
  • Whiteside, A. and Lowbeer, D. (2009). Chapter in book, Governance and sustainable financing in Southern Africa. Swaziland a case study, for the book Innovative Health Partnerships: the diplomacy of diversity, edited by Daniel Lowbeer.
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