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Sustaining Life : AIDS Activism in South Africa / Theodore Powers.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powers, Theodore, Author.
- Series:
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
- Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- HIV infections--Government policy--South Africa.
- HIV infections.
- AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease)--Government policy--South Africa.
- Social movements--South Africa.
- Social movements.
- AIDS activists--South Africa.
- AIDS activists.
- HIV infections--Political aspects--South Africa.
- South Africa.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Through participant observation and in-depth interviews, Sustaining Life explores how the South African AIDS movement transformed public health institutions, changed policy norms, and enabled near-universal access to treatment to sustain the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Sustaining Life
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction. People, Pathogens, and Power: Situating the South African HIV/AIDS Epidemic
- Chapter 1. Contact, Colonization, and Apartheid: South African Social Formations in Historical Perspective
- Chapter 2. The Political History of South African HIV/AIDS Activism
- Chapter 3. Occupying the State: HIV/AIDS Activism and the South African National AIDS Council
- Chapter 4. A Policy Redirected: Transnational Donor Capital and Treatment Access in the Western Cape Province
- Chapter 5. Community Health Activism, AIDS Dissidence, and Local HIV/AIDS Politics in Khayelitsha
- Chapter 6. People Are the State: Activism, Access, and Transformation
- Afterword. After Treatment Access: An Epidemic Unresolved
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8122-9685-0
- OCLC:
- 1144976346
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