Curing Lives
About This Book
Set against daily life during the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia, this study asks why the worldwide push for universal HIV treatment moved away from its original concern with the immense suffering the epidemic caused. It traces how that shift took place and what lay behind it. When antiretroviral medicines reached Ethiopia, they did more than save individual patients. They gave people the courage to confront their fear of AIDS, opened up conversation about a disease long wrapped in silence, and helped repair the damage the epidemic had done to communities. The book contends that over the past decade these same medicines have quietly undone much of that progress. Relationships have come apart, hidden social divisions have resurfaced, and many people have become indifferent to those whose lives remain fragile under the current treatment system. The book attributes this whole process to neoliberal global health programs, which decide which lives are considered worth investing in and which are not. It will appeal to scholars of biopolitics and public health, to researchers of the developing world, and to anyone curious about how responses to a pandemic reshape people's lives.
ISBN: 9789819918331
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