Living with HIV in Post-Crisis Times

Beyond the Endgame

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av David A.B. Murray, David a. B. Murray, David A. B. Murray

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Over the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in global health organizations claiming that the end of the HIV/AIDS crisis is near and that HIV/AIDS is now a chronic but manageable disease. These proclamations have been accompanied by stagnant or decreasing public interest in and financial support for people living with HIV and the organizations that support them, minimizing significant global disparities in the management and control of the HIV pandemic. The contributors to this edited collection explore how diverse communities of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and organizations that support them are navigating physical, social, political, and economic challenges during these so-called “post-crisis” times.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-18
Mått160 x 228 x 22 mm
Vikt576 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAnthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
Antal sidor254
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666901481

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Part I: Fantastic Conceits and How to Mind Them: Managing PLHIV in ‘Post-Crisis’ TimesChapter 1: Forty Years of AIDS: Fatigue, Failure, and FantasiesChapter 2: Governing HIV-Positive Subjectivities in Post-2011 Egypt Chapter 3: Disclosure and Responsibility: Children Living with HIV in Uganda Chapter 4: Coordination of Medical Pluralism in Public HIV Health Care in South Africa:Shifting to an Alliance Framework with Traditional Health PractitionersChapter 5: Being HIV Positive Healthy Enough in West Africa for an Ebola Clinical Trial? Part II: Always Never Normal: Positive Living in ‘Post-Crisis’ TimesChapter 6: “I can live a normal life”: Challenging Perceptions of HIV and (Re)productive Life in JapanChapter 7: Opting Out: Aging Gays, HIV/AIDS and the Bio-Politics of Queer Viral TimeChapter 8: From “at Risk” to Interdependent: The Erotic Life Worlds of HIV+ Jamaican WomenChapter 9: Life beyond survival: HIV Positive Men on ART Treatment who Consume Alcohol in Urban IndiaConclusion: R

This edited collection of ethnographic research reports from 11 contributors around the globe makes the case that biomedical treatment to prolong life and reduce transmission of HIV has not solved the HIV/AIDS crisis. Murray includes case studies from Egypt, Uganda, India, Africa, Japan, Jamaica, and Canada that discuss numerous problems: lack of access to resources; drug shortages and limited distribution; treatment non-compliance; stigma and discrimination; dwindling financial support for fewer programs; staff shortages; inadequate follow-up; aging patients and long-term toxic drug side effects; increased alcohol use; girls and women as victims of sexual violence and/or abandonment/widowhood; food insecurity and need for nutritional counseling; and problems of poor migrant populations such as unstable housing, underemployment, and the like. Contributing authors also share information on some positive efforts and pilot programs: women-centered networks and "Mentor Moms" in Jamaica; Ugandan residential treatment and a school for children with advanced HIV infection who are eventually reintegrated into home communities; and a Canadian/West African EBOLA vaccine clinical trial conducted among HIV+ immunocompromised individuals. The chapters include extensive notes and references[.] Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.