TY - BOOK AU - Suzanne Mulligan PY - 2011 CY - Oxford, United Kingdom PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1662-1212 SN - 9783035300239 TI - Confronting the Challenge T2 - Poverty, Gender and HIV in South Africa DO - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0023-9 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043861 N2 - 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. KW - HIV/AIDS, sexual ethics, Catholic theological responses, South African society LA - English ER -