Book
Sustaining life: AIDS activism in South Africa
Pennsylvania studies in human rights, University of Pennsylvania Press
2020
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Abstract
Through participant observation and in-depth interviews, Sustaining Life explores how the South African AIDS movement transformed public health institutions, changed policy norms, and enabled near-universal access to treatment to sustain the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Sustaining life: AIDS activism in South Africa
- Creators
- Theodore Powers - University of Iowa, Interdisciplinary Programs
- Resource Type
- Book
- Table of contents
- Cover -- Sustaining Life -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. People, Pathogens, and Power: Situating the South African HIV/AIDS Epidemic -- Chapter 1. Contact, Colonization, and Apartheid: South African Social Formations in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 2. The Political History of South African HIV/AIDS Activism -- Chapter 3. Occupying the State: HIV/AIDS Activism and the South African National AIDS Council -- Chapter 4. A Policy Redirected: Transnational Donor Capital and Treatment Access in the Western Cape Province -- Chapter 5. Community Health Activism, AIDS Dissidence, and Local HIV/AIDS Politics in Khayelitsha -- Chapter 6. People Are the State: Activism, Access, and Transformation -- Afterword. After Treatment Access: An Epidemic Unresolved -- Notes -- References -- Index
- Series
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights
- ISBN
- 9780812252002; 0812252004
- eISBN
- 0812296850; 9780812296853
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press; Philadelphia
- Number of pages
- xvi, 239 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2020
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983816896002771
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