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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.
List of 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 in the State: Activism, Access, and Transformation
Afterword. After Treatment Access: An Epidemic Unresolved
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Theodore Powers teaches in the Department of Anthropology and Global Heath Studies Program at the University of Iowa.
Summary
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.
