Who is Nursing Them? It is Us

This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. The story of South African public sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic-for a workforce that played a role in the struggle against apartheid women who deal with the burden of HIV/AIDS care at work and in the community and a constituency of the new South African democracy that is working on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Through case studies of three provincial hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal set against a historical backdrop this book tells the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the post-apartheid period.