Fierce medicines, fragile socialities : grounding global HIV treatment in Tanzania /

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 strugg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mattes, Dominik, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Colección:Epistemologies of healing ; v. 18.
Temas:
HIV-positive persons > Tanzania > Social conditions.
AIDS (Disease) > Treatment > Tanzania.
AIDS (Disease) > Alternative treatment > Tanzania.
Antiretroviral agents > Social aspects > Tanzania.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / AIDS & HIV.
AIDS (Disease) > Alternative treatment.
AIDS (Disease) > Treatment.
HIV-positive persons > Social conditions.
Tanzania.
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 'normalization of HIV'.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 422 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1789203228
9781789203226

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