Fault Lines of Care : Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia / Carina Heckert.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Heckert, Carina, Author.

Series:

• Medical Anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• HIV infections--Bolivia.
• AIDS (Disease)--Bolivia.

Genre:

• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country's low HIV prevalence rate. However, by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country, Carina Heckert shows how global health-funded HIV care programs at times clash with local realities, which can have catastrophic effects for people living with HIV who must rely on global health resources to survive. These ethnographic insights, as a result, can be applied to AIDS programs across the globe. In Fault Lines of Care, Heckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword / Manderson, Lenore
• 1. Fault Lines
• 2. Decolonizing Bolivia
• 3. When Care Is a "Systematic Route of Torture"
• 4. Aiding Women
• 5. Synergistic Silences
• 6. Blaming Machismo
• 7. The Biopolitical Drama of HIV Funding
• 8. Decolonizing Global Health
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

• 9780813586922
• 0813586925
• 9780813586939
• 0813586933

OCLC:

1036732044