Sustaining life : AIDS activism in South Africa / Theodore Powers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powers, Theodore, author.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--South Africa.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV infections--Political aspects--South Africa.

HIV infections.

AIDS (Disease)--Government policy--South Africa.

HIV infections--Government policy--South Africa.

AIDS activists--South Africa.

AIDS activists.

Social movements--South Africa.

Social movements.

AIDS (Disease)--Government policy.

AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects.

HIV infections--Government policy.

HIV infections--Political aspects.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

xvi, 239 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Summary: From the historical roots of HIV/AIDS activism in the struggle for African liberation to the everyday work of community education in Khayelitsha, this book shows how people and organizations negotiated access to treatment in South Africa. Sustaining Life, then, offers an on-the-ground ethnographic analysis of the ways that HIV/AIDS activists built alliances, developed new policy, and transformed national health institutions to increase access to HIV/AIDS treatment. In analyzing how encounters among activists, state health administrators, and people living with HIV/AIDS transformed access to treatment in South Africa, the book addresses three key questions: How were the activists of the South African HIV/AIDS movement able to overcome an AIDS-dissident faction that was backed by government power? How exactly were state health institutions and HIV/AIDS policy transformed to increase public sector access to treatment? How should the South African campaign for treatment access inform academic debates on social movements, transnationalism, and the state, and what insights does it provide for health care activism?"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Contact, Colonization, and Apartheid: South African Social Formations in Historical Perspective p. 23

Chapter 2 The Political History of South African HIV/AIDS Activism p. 53

Chapter 3 Occupying the State: HIV/AIDS Activism and the South African National AIDS Council p. 82

Chapter 4 A Policy Redirected: Transnational Donor Capital and Treatment Access in the Western Cape Province p. 104

Chapter 5 Community Health Activism, AIDS Dissidence, and Local HIV/AIDS Politics in Khayelitsha p. 134

Chapter 6 People Are the State: Activism, Access, and Transformation p. 158.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812252002

0812252004

OCLC:

1111639696