Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa / Robert J. Thornton.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008], ©2008.

xxi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and index.

Introduction: meaning and structure in the study of AIDS -- Comparing Uganda and South Africa: sexual networks, family structure, and property -- The social determinants of sexual network configuration -- The tightening chain: civil society and Uganda's response to HIV/AIDS -- AIDS in Uganda: years of chaos and recovery -- Siliimu as native category: AIDS as local knowledge in Uganda -- Uganda's indigenization of AIDS: governance and the political response in Uganda -- South Africa's struggle: the omission and commission of truth about AIDS -- Imagining AIDS: South Africa's viral politics -- Flows of sexual substance: the sexual network in South Africa -- Preventing AIDS: a new paradigm for a new strategy.