"Will to Live" tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the
first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS
therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance
of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the
pharmaceutical industry. But anthropologist Joao Biehl also tells
why this policy, hailed as a model worldwide, has been so difficult
to implement among poor Brazilians with HIV/AIDS, who are often
stigmatized as noncompliant or untreatable, becoming invisible to
the public. More broadly, Biehl examines the political economy of
pharmaceuticals that lies behind large-scale treatment rollouts,
revealing the possibilities and inequalities that come with a magic
bullet approach to health care.
By moving back and forth between the institutions shaping the
Brazilian response to AIDS and the people affected by the disease,
Biehl has created a book of unusual vividness, scope, and detail.
At the core of "Will to Live" is a group of AIDS
patients--unemployed, homeless, involved with prostitution and
drugs--that established a makeshift health service. Biehl
chronicled the personal lives of these people for over ten years
and Torben Eskerod represents them here in more than one hundred
stark photographs.
Ethnography, social medicine, and art merge in this unique
book, illuminating the care and agency needed to extend life amid
perennial violence. Full of lessons for the future, "Will to Live"
promises to have a lasting influence in the social sciences and in
the theory and practice of global public health."
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