03017nam a2200385 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020004200112020003900154020002700193040002100220035002100241043001200262050002800274082002700302100002000329245012500349246004300474260006300517300002500580504006600605520143700671533015202108650004502260650005202305650004602357650003702403655002902440710001702469856012602486999001902612ebr10521888CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||110624s2011    ncua    sb    001 0 eng d  z  2011025920  z9780807834985 (hardback : alk. paper)  z080783498X (hardback : alk. paper)  z9780807869154 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)785733427  an-us-nc14aRA643.84.N8bI57 2011eb04a362.196/97920097562231 aInrig, Stephen.10aNorth Carolina & the problem of AIDSh[electronic resource] :badvocacy, politics, & race in the South /cStephen Inrig.3 aNorth Carolina and the problem of AIDS  aChapel Hill :bUniversity of North Carolina Press,cc2011.  axiii, 208 p. :bill.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-201) and index.  a"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"--cProvided by publisher.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2012.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aAIDS (Disease)zNorth CarolinaxHistory. 0aAIDS (Disease)xSocial aspectszNorth Carolina. 0aAIDS (Disease)zSouthern StatesxHistory. 0aAfrican American gaysxDiseases. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10521888zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c142319d142319