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Public Secrets and Private Sufferings in the South African AIDS Epidemic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Public Secrets and Private Sufferings in the South African AIDS Epidemic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Social Aspects of HIV, 6
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This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and
asks why, after more than three decades, it has not normalised.
Despite considerable efforts to prevent infection, and ambitious
targets set to end the epidemic by 2030, HIV infections are
increasing among young women and treatment uptake and adherence
have been uneven. Focusing on the years preceding and following
treatment access, this book addresses why an end to AIDS may be
misplaced optimism. By examining public discourses and private
narratives about infection, illness and death, this work reveals
the contradictions between the lived experiences of AIDS suffering
on the one hand, and biomedical certainties on the other. Based on
long-term ethnographic research in rural villages of the South
African lowveld, and within HIV prevention interventions in South
Africa more generally, this book offers an intimate perspective on
the social and cultural responses to the epidemic.
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