%0 Book
%A Suzanne Mulligan
%D 2011
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1662-1212
%@ 9783035300239
%T Confronting the Challenge
%B Poverty, Gender and HIV in South Africa
%R 10.3726/978-3-0353-0023-9
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043861
%X This book examines some of the ways in which HIV/AIDS is affecting South African society. Catholic theological responses have focused extensively on the implications of HIV/AIDS for the area of sexual ethics. Although there are important questions to be answered here, many more fundamental issues have been overlooked as a result. This book responds to the need within Catholic theology for a greater examination of the injustices associated with the AIDS pandemic. The author argues that the human rights challenges associated with poverty, gender discrimination, sexual violence and access to essential AIDS-related health care are a crucial feature of the crisis. The author turns to the social teaching of the Catholic Church for a fuller framework of analysis in this regard and provides a critical examination of that teaching’s core concepts and principles. The work of leading international economists Amartya Sen and Muhammad Yunus is explored as a means of relating the principles of Catholic social teaching to the concrete social and economic realities that exacerbate this global pandemic.
%K HIV/AIDS, sexual ethics, Catholic theological responses, South African society
%G English