Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Maps xvi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. When There’s No Accessing Basic Health Care Local Politics and Responses to HIV/AIDS at Lake Kopiago, Papua New Guinea 24
8. 2. “It’s Mutual Attraction” Transvestites and the Risk of HIV Transmission in Urban Papua 41
9. 3. Fear and Loathing in Papua New Guinea Sexual Health in a Nation under Siege 60
10. 4. Why Are Kanak Women More Vulnerable than Others to HIV? Ethnographic and Statistical Insights from New Caledonia 80
11. 5. Buying Betel and Selling Sex Contested Boundaries, Risk Milieus, and Discourses about HIV/AIDS in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea 97
12. 6. Silence Speaks Volumes Elite Responses to AIDS in Highlands Papua 116
13. 7. The Trouble with Trousers Gossip, Kastom, and Sexual Culture in Vanuatu 133
14. 8. Love as Sacrifice The Romantic Underground and Beliefs about HIV/AIDS in Manokwari, Papua 150
15. 9. Smoke from Fire Desire and Secrecy in Auki, Solomon Islands 168
16. 10. “You Have to Understand: Some of Us Are Glad AIDS Has Arrived” Christianity and Condoms among the Huli, Papua New Guinea 187
17. 11. Moral Reform and Miraculous Cures Christian Healing and AIDS in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea 206
18. 12. SikAIDS Deconstructing the Awareness Campaign in Rural West New Britain, Papua New Guinea 224
19. 13. Fitting Condoms on Culture Rethinking Approaches to HIV Prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea 246
20. Notes 267
21. Bibliography 279
22. Contributors 307
23. Index 309
24. About the Editors 321