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Mistreated : the political consequences of the fight against AIDS in Lesotho /
A critical ethnography of global health initiatives, showing how, even as they save lives, they can usher in new forms of disenfranchisement for citizens in African states.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville, Tennessee :
Vanderbilt University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A critical ethnography of global health initiatives, showing how, even as they save lives, they can usher in new forms of disenfranchisement for citizens in African states. "As global health institutions and aid donors expanded HIV treatment throughout Africa, they rapidly 'scaled up' programs, projects, and organizations meant to address HIV and AIDS. Yet these efforts did not simply have biological effects: in addition to extending lives and preventing further infections, treatment scale-up initiated remarkable political and social shifts. In Lesotho, which has the world's second highest HIV prevalence, HIV treatment has had unintentional but pervasive political costs, distancing citizens from the government, fostering distrust of health programs, and disrupting the social contract. Based on ethnographic observation between 2008 and 2014, this book chillingly anticipates the political violence and instability that swept through Lesotho in 2014"--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780826521569 0826521568 |