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Second Chances - Surviving AIDS in Uganda (Paperback)
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Second Chances - Surviving AIDS in Uganda (Paperback)
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
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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
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