Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities (eBook)

Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania

Dominik Mattes (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
436 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-383-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Set in Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients' multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book shows that, notwithstanding the massive rollout of ART, providing treatment and living a life with HIV in settings like Tanga continue to entail social, economic, and moral challenges and long-term uncertainties, which contradict the global rhetoric of the "e;normalization of HIV"e;.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Epistemologies of Healing
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: academic text • Africa • Aids Epidemic • Anthropology • antiretroviral therapy • Antiretroviral treatment • Developmental studies • Diseases • Ethnographic Fieldwork • ethnography • HIV treatment • living on arvs • living with HIV • long term cure • normalization of hiv • Public Health • social fragilities • Tanzania • World Health Organization
• ISBN-10: 1-80539-383-9 / 1805393839
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80539-383-2 / 9781805393832