AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine: Inside South Africa's Epidemic (Niehaus Isak)(Paperback)

AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine: Inside South Africa's Epidemic (Niehaus Isak)(Paperback)

AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine: Inside South Africa's Epidemic (Niehaus Isak)(Paperback)

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The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early 1990s, the disease spread rapidly, and by 2008 life expectancies had fallen by 12 years for men and 14 years for women. Since 2005, public health facilities have increasingly offered free HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) treatment, offering a degree of hope, but uptake and adherence to the therapy has been sporadic and uneven.

Drawing on his extensive ethnographic research, carried out in Bushbuckridge over the course of 25 years, Isak Niehaus reveals how the AIDS pandemic has been experienced at the village-level. Most significantly, he shows how local cultural practices and values have shaped responses to the epidemic. For example, while local attitudes towards death and misfortune have contributed to the stigma around

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