The Sociocultural Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Religion in Northern Nigeria

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" The Sociocultural Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Religion in Northern Nigeria "
Adebayo Oluseyi Akintunde de la Torre, Adela

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	804019
Doc. No	:	TL48831
Call number	:	‭1807128802;‮ ‬10124377‬
Main Entry	:	Miller, Nathaniel Ashton
Title & Author	:	The Sociocultural Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Religion in Northern Nigeria\ Adebayo Oluseyi Akintundede la Torre, Adela
College	:	University of California, Davis
Date	:	2016
Degree	:	Ph.D.
field of study	:	Geography
student score	:	2016
Page No	:	156
Note	:	Committee members: Adejumobi, Moradewun; Benner, Chris
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-82485-7
Abstract	:	One way of accounting for the lower rates of HIV infection in predominantly Muslim areas of the world is to consider the degree of tolerance for geographical regions that might allow community members to engage in practices specifically forbidden by the religion, whose proscriptions might offer some degree of protection against sexually transmitted diseases. Predominantly Muslim areas of Nigeria exhibit a lower tolerance for such spaces, which also tend to be highly segregated by ethnicity, religion, and gender. As the largest city in northern Nigeria, and the largest city in the savannah/Sahel region of Africa, Kano offers a somewhat higher degree of tolerance for such spaces compared to non-urban Muslim areas, and correspondingly Kano has a somewhat more elevated rate of seroprevalence than predominantly non-urban Muslim communities have.
Subject	:	Geography; Public health; Sub Saharan Africa Studies
Descriptor	:	Social sciences;Health and environmental sciences;Community health;HIV/AIDS;Nigeria;Religion;Risky sexual behavior
Added Entry	:	de la Torre, Adela
Added Entry	:	GeographyUniversity of California, Davis