Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822358085 ISBN 13 : 9780822358084

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2014

Synopsis

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. A massive global health intervention, the scaling up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), saved them and created a generation of people who learned to live with treatment. As clients they joined programs that offered free antiretroviral medicine and encouraged "positive living." Because ART is not a cure but a lifelong treatment regime, its consequences are far-reaching for society, families, and individuals. Drawing on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history, the essays in this collection explore ART from the perspective of those who received second chances. Their concerns about treatment, partners, children, work, food, and bodies reveal the essential sociality of Ugandan life. The collection is based on research undertaken by a team of social scientists including both Western and African scholars.

Contributors. Phoebe Kajubi, David Kyaddondo, Lotte Meinert, Hanne O. Mogensen, Godfrey Etyang Siu, Jenipher Twebaze, Michael A. Whyte, Susan Reynolds Whyte

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda, coauthor of Social Lives of Medicines, and coeditor of Disability in Local and Global Worlds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822358085
• ISBN 13: 9780822358084
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 322
• Éditeur: Whyte
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