["Be your own risk-manager!"--the discourse on risk in German HIV/AIDS-prevention].
This article presents, some results of a discourse analysis on the HIV/AIDS-Prevention in Germany. The Analysis has been carried out for a thesis in historical anthropology and focuses on the dicourse on risk, which becomes evident in the statements related to HIV/AIDS-Prevention. First of all, the article shows, how the description of risky situations replaces the construction of high-risk groups. Moreover, the article retraces changes in the strategies of HIV/AIDS-Prevention over the last 25 years and pays special attention to references to risky situations.
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Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin der Universität Freiburg i. Br. kueppers@egm.uni-freiburg.de
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017280:Condoms; D005858:Germany; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D021841:Safe Sex; D047568:Unsafe Sex / Q000517:prevention & control