Sustaining life AIDS activism in South Africa
Dissertation, CUNY, 2012
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Philadelphia
PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press
2020
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, CUNY, 2012 "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?." |
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| Beschreibung: | xvi, 239 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780812252002 978-0-81225-200-2 |