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| A KalerSummaryAffiliation: University of Alberta Country: Canada Publications
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Disobedient distributors: street-level bureaucrats and would-be patrons in community-based family planning programs in rural KenyaA Kaler
University of Alberta, Department of Sociology, 5 21 HM Tory Building, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2H4
Stud Fam Plann 32:254-69. 2001..CBD agents are concerned with building up their own stocks of prestige and respect from their community members, while avoiding blame for any possible negative outcomes of family planning...
AIDS-talk in everyday life: the presence of HIV/AIDS in men's informal conversation in Southern MalawiAmy Kaler
Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, 5 21 Tory Building, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2H4
Soc Sci Med 59:285-97. 2004..In this paper, I analyse these journals in order to see how men talk about AIDS in naturalistic settings, what they perceive as the impact of the AIDS epidemic, and how they understand AIDS risk...
The moral lens of population control: condoms and controversies in southern MalawiAmy Kaler
Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, 5 21 HM Tory Building, Edmonton, Canada
Stud Fam Plann 35:105-15. 2004..Disentangling condoms from the symbolic nexus in which they are fused with disease, population control, and malevolence will be an ongoing challenge in the struggle to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Malawi...
Classifying pain: what's at stake for women with dyspareuniaAmy Kaler
Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, 5-21 Tory, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H4, Canada
Arch Sex Behav 34:34-6, 57-61; author reply 63-7. 2005
Health interventions and the persistence of rumour: the circulation of sterility stories in African public health campaignsAmy Kaler
Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, 5 21 HM Tory Building, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2H4
Soc Sci Med 68:1711-9. 2009..I use Foucault's notion of biopolitics to theorize international public health programmes, and introduce the concept of counter-epistemic convergence to account for the ubiquity and persistence of sterility rumours...
"Living by the hoe" in the age of treatment: perceptions of household well-being after antiretroviral treatment among family members of persons with AIDSAmy Kaler
Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
AIDS Care 22:509-19. 2010..While they were very happy with the treatment, they said that households have not yet recovered from the shock of AIDS sicknesses...
Gender differences in antiretroviral treatment outcomes of HIV patients in rural UgandaWalter Kipp
Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
AIDS Care 22:271-8. 2010..Ideally, ART programs should work toward equitable treatment outcomes for men and women, if the cause of the gender differential lies in patient behavior and the way ART services are delivered...
