Preaching Prevention. Lydia Boyd

Preaching Prevention

PREACHING PREVENTION

PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL HEALTH

Series editor: James L. A. Webb, Jr.

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Preaching Prevention: Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda, by Lydia Boyd

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PREACHING PREVENTION

Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda

Lydia Boyd

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Boyd, Lydia, author.

Preaching prevention : born-again Christianity and the moral politics of AIDS in Uganda / Lydia Boyd.

p. ; cm. — (Perspectives on global health)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8214-2169-7 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8214-2170-3 (pb : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8214-4532-7 (pdf)

I. Title. II. Series: Perspectives on global health.

[DNLM: 1. United States. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. 2. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome—prevention & control—Uganda. 3. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome—prevention & control—United States. 4. HIV Infections—prevention & control—Uganda. 5. HIV Infections—prevention & control—United States. 6. Christianity—Uganda. 7. Christianity—United States. 8. Health Policy—Uganda. 9. Health Policy—United States. 10. Sexual Abstinence—Uganda. 11. Sexual Abstinence—United States. WC 503.6]

RA643.86.U33

362.19697'920096761—dc23

2015026459

ISBN 978-0-8214-4532-7 (e-book)

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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Politics and Antipolitics of Miracles

PART I. THE CONTEXT OF A POLICY

ONE. American Compassion and the Politics of AIDS Prevention in Uganda