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Book SynopsisOver the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in global health organizations claiming that the end of the HIV/AIDS crisis is near and that HIV/AIDS is now a chronic but manageable disease. These proclamations have been accompanied by stagnant or decreasing public interest in and financial support for people living with HIV and the organizations that support them, minimizing significant global disparities in the management and control of the HIV pandemic. The contributors to this edited collection explore how diverse communities of people living with HIV (PLHIV) navigate physical, social, political, and economic challenges during these so-called “post-crisis” times.
Trade ReviewAs the world enters the fifth decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, this volume offers an essential reminder that HIV is not over, particularly for the many activist and patient communities who risk being further marginalized by such discourses. These varied and ethnographically rich chapters provide a powerful record of where, how, and for whom HIV persists—and at what cost.
-- Nora Kenworthy, University of Washington Bothell; author of
Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in LesothoTable of ContentsPart I: Fantastic Conceits and How to Mind Them: Managing PLHIV in ‘Post-Crisis’ Times
Chapter 1: Forty Years of AIDS: Fatigue, Failure, and Fantasies
Chapter 2: Governing HIV-Positive Subjectivities in Post-2011 Egypt
Chapter 3: Disclosure and Responsibility: Children Living with HIV in Uganda
Chapter 4: Coordination of Medical Pluralism in Public HIV Health Care in South Africa:
Shifting to an Alliance Framework with Traditional Health Practitioners
Chapter 5: Being HIV Positive Healthy Enough in West Africa for an Ebola Clinical Trial?
Part II: Always Never Normal: Positive Living in ‘Post-Crisis’ Times
Chapter 6: “I can live a normal life”: Challenging Perceptions of HIV and (Re)productive Life in Japan
Chapter 7: Opting Out: Aging Gays, HIV/AIDS and the Bio-Politics of Queer Viral Time
Chapter 8: From “at Risk” to Interdependent: The Erotic Life Worlds of HIV+ Jamaican Women
Chapter 9: Life beyond survival: HIV Positive Men on ART Treatment who Consume Alcohol in Urban India
Conclusion: Remembering HIV in the Era of Eradication: Critical Nostalgia, Infrastructures of Accountability, and the Fate of Viral Socialities
Afterword: Beyond AIDS
