Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda

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 w...

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Weitere Verfasser: David, Kyaddondo (MitwirkendeR), Godfrey, Etyang Siu (MitwirkendeR), Hanne O., Mogensen (MitwirkendeR), Jenipher, Twebaze (MitwirkendeR), Lotte, Meinert (MitwirkendeR), Michael, Whyte (MitwirkendeR), Phoebe, Kajubi (MitwirkendeR), Susan, Reynolds Whyte (MitwirkendeR), Whyte, Susan Reynolds (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press [2015]
Schriftenreihe:Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (328 pages) 12 illustrations
ISBN:9780822375975
DOI:10.1515/9780822375975

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